The Magic Flute

Our week-end "date" was absolutely deeviine!

Teacher Hanka collected the girls just before 11:00 on Saturday morning and we then ran to collect the 11 o'clock bus to Prague. In Prague, we popped into the metropole shopping centre where I had been eyeing some new boots and with new purchase in hand (or actually by that stage "on-foot") we caught the underground to the centre of Prague where our hotel was. We checked in just around 2pm, settled into our room and then crashed! (ok, so we didn't sleep immediately ;-)...)

We got up in time to don our opera best with time to walk to the restaurant at the theatre where we had a 5pm reservation. The restaurant had been recommended to us by a colleague and boy was it a treat! Very Larny... and great to be there alone. We felt very spoiled as we ate sushi and decor-type cuisine in very romantic settings.
We left with the 10 minutes needed to walk around to the front of the opera and to find our seats. Due to the last-minute of the reservations, we only could book second row seats in a box. But we were upgraded by default when after 10 minutes into the performance we realised that the 2 immediately in front of us were not going to pitch and so we re-arranged ourselves into the front row position.

The opera house was a real experience! It is all glitz and glamour - but of an ancient 18th century kind of way. The photos below don't really show off the theatre, but it will at least give you a tit-bit until you decide to come and see for yourselves :-)On Sunday morning, we woke up late enough to still make breakfast and then checked out without any agenda in mind. We planned to meet some of my colleagues in a sports bar in Prague to watch SA play Fiji, so we headed to Wenceslas Square with our books and browsed; drank coffee; read books; people watched and then had McDonalds before heading for the game. As the game finished we ran out to catch the underground in time to get the 5.30pm bus home from Prague and be home before Teacher Hanka arrived with the girls.

*Sigh* We will definitely have to do that again...