We're tourists!

We had a really nice weekend with our first "guests from the States". The weather couldn't have been more beautiful -- I think it was the first real Spring weekend. Sunshine and 70. On Saturday we finally made it to Prague Castle. We didn't get to take a tour of the castle this time, but we walked the courtyard and went into the Cathedral. It's quite amazing, and I'm sure we'll go back to complete our visit. Although enourmous tourist crowds of the summer may lead us to postpone our revisit until fall. On Sunday we visited a castle approx. 40 minutes away. It was the castle of archduke Frances Ferdinand, who was assasinated in Sarajevo in 1914, which (for you history buffs)led to the beginning of World War I. We arrived just in time to join up with the last English tour of the day. Quite fortunate since the day would've been a bust if we couldn't tour the place. Ferdinand was a hunting addict, so the place was overwhelmingly "decorated" with his trophies. Needless to say, I don't think we will take some certain Towson neighbors (ahem... you know who you are) there to visit. However, I think we will need to make a return trip sometime this summer to see the enormous rose garden in bloom.