Get A Taste!!

First of all, we are just so totally honored and EXCITED that we have received multiple requests to update the blog. We're not slacking. We just wanted to see if you were paying attention. Looks like you are. We will proceed.

Turns out though, we were kind of slacking. We had big plans, HUGE plans for our Interlaken post. We were just really busy hurling ourselves off of cliffs and gliding through the air strapped to a parachute and guy named Thomas. Between horse trekking, canyoning and paragliding, our first priority was learning how to walk again (you try bouncing on a saddle for two hours straight on a horse who doesn't know the meaning of the word whoa). This was the land of extreme sports and we felt very, very extreme. I was so proud of Jennifer. Although it took her a while to warm up to the idea of canyoning ("Do they have diaper rentals?") she was a rockstar and only almost got trapped beneath a churning waterfall, never to be seen again. My campaign to get her to skydive with me fell on deaf ears; she would hear nothing of it("Jamie, haven't you noticed that you only want to skydive when you've got a few gin and tonics under your belt?") so I gave up . But it was AMAZING and definitely one of our favorite stops along the way.

After that....Munich, the land of beer and sausage. We spent a very confused first night there - we went to a huge beer garden for dinner and were left to our own devices while ordering from a German menu. Basically, there was a huge display of meat and we just held our breath, hoping that we had chosen the one with the smallest hunk of fat attached to it. I sort of became anti-meat here. We went on a food and beer tour, which was really cool until the schnitzel came out. FRIED COW'S UDDER. I was brave enough to try it and, at first, I actually LIKED it. But then i got ahold of some without the crispy little fried bits and oh my god I really almost made a scene right there at the table. It tastes just like what you might imagine a cow's udder would taste like....So yeah, since then I've been hitting the vegetarian menu like there's no tomorrow.

Munich to Prague....another interesting train adventure. We left Germany at 6am and had a whole compartment to ourselves. With plenty of peace and quiet to snooze away, we thanked our lucky stars only to realize that the reason no one had bothered to come into our compartment was that we were LOCKED IN. Yes, for some reason the conductor locked us in there (we had the curtains drawn, but still he knew we were there!! gah.) After almost blacking out from panic, we managed to summon the attention of the conductor who let us out and then shrugged. He just shrugged, can you imagine?? Oh sorry I LOCKED you in a room the size of shoebox with no way to get out. Moving on....

So here we are in Prague! We're staying in the greatest hostel on Earth...the Czech Inn (pun intended, i think). It's spotless and luxurious AND cheap so we are huge fans. We bought tickets to the opera tonight. Mozart's Don Giovanni is playing here and we could not pass it up even though we know absolutely no italian. So it was a given that, since we had bought the tickets and everything, that we needed opera clothes. So we were forced to go shopping ("I think I feel a Pretty Woman moment coming on.") and if I do say so myself, we looked hot in all our discount finery (at least we think it was discount. who can tell with this funny Czech money?). Hot, at this point, is all relative, but still....

There you go. The Grand Update. We will try to do a better job of keeping up! We love you and miss you!!! Let us hear....

xoxoxo