Thursday - May 21st

2nd day in Prague...in our late night walking, the night before, to show the kids the castle all lit up at night we found a toy store. So at 10:00 am we checked out of the youth hostel and headed to the toystore. i told the kids that they couldn't get anything that we could buy at target, walmart, or toys r us, also they couldn't spend all of their money. nearly everything there was american other than their baby toys, but we didn't need any of those. Emma bought a little cat wehre you push the button on the bottom and he collapses. James was really dissapointed and was pouty for quite a while. We then walked to the main square to see the clock but we just had missed it. The buildings and fountain were really pretty there though. Since we missed the castle the day before we decided to try again. So we wlaked over to the river then decided to hop on the trolly to cross the river and travel up the hill. Luckily they didn't check to see if anyone had paid, he, he. It was great that we rode up the hill it saved everyone's feet, even with that, our feet all hurt by noon. Even Claudia's feet hurt, and that is saying something. So, we went in the cathedral. It was really similiar to Notre Dame in Paris. Even the layout and the decor. it also had the same flying buttresses. the kids were fried and I was so sick of eating cheese and bread by the end of the day. So we finally left Prague and still had 400 crowns (about $20). The town before the German border we got some Czech cookies and wafers with some juice and water to use up our money. The wafers are for the kids to take back to school for their class presentations. Our drive took us around three hours to our next stop. the youth hostel in Regensburg, Germany we stayed at was nice and had a tether ball for the kids to play with. they enjoyed it. we walked into town and had a really nice German meal at a HB (hofbrauhaus). it was fun to window shop there too. the stores were all closed because it was so late.