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Prague Library

Jon and I happened upon the Prague main library in Old Town the other day, so we walked in, where we found this: It's a floor-to-ceiling hollow tower of books and it looks pretty cool. And this is what...

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Muzeum Lega

On Tuesday, the kids and I went to a Lego Museum here in Prague. From what I read about it, a private collector had accumulated too many Lego sets to comfortably display at his home, so he created a...

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Jon's standing desk

At home, Jon's been using a standing desk for about a year and he really likes it. Now he's working from wherever we're living, so his work set-up will be changing frequently, which we hoped would...

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A flower for Easter

My hopes for a sunny, flower-filled Easter have been dashed -- it's cold and windy and might even snow -- but here is our indoor Spring surprise: I'm not very knowledgeable about plants, so I had no...

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Graffiti in Prague

This post is for my Uncle Howard, who is a famous chronicler of graffiti in and around L.A. -- he's been published and has had photos exhibited in art shows. A while ago on Facebook, he requested more...

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Kutná Hora and Prague Castle garden

We visited the town Kutná Hora, about an hour from Prague by bus. Its Sedlec area is home to the famous ossuary = bone house, a church with a still functional chapel upstairs and displays of human...

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Moving

On Friday we moved from Prague to Dresden, Germany. It's our first move on our Family Field Trip, and Jon and I had both been dreading the actual moving part for a while -- getting all 8 of us onto...

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Dresden. And organs.

A couple of pictures to prove that we're really in Dresden. Der Fürstenzug (the Procession of Princes): I feel like I have to prove to myself that we're really here, sometimes. Many parts of it look so...

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Video tour of our Dresden apartment

To clarify some of the video: Our apartment is on the second floor of an older, nicely renovated house. In Europe, the second floor is called the first floor because it's the first floor above the...

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The Frauenkirche

I have some photos of the inside of the Frauenkirche, but this video from the dedication of the organ has some great shots of it that show amazing pastel colors of the marble. There's also a shot from...

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Terezín aka Theresienstadt

I visited the Terezín (Czech) or Theresienstadt (German) concentration camp on April 2 with Zed and our friend Ian from Brazil. Terezín was not an intentional extermination camp, but more of a...

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Dresden Verschiedenes

Today we went to church in the Dresden ward. The bishopric member conducting sacrament meeting invited Erin to give her testimony and me to give the closing prayer. Erin got to meet with some people...

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Couple of short videos

Here's a very short video of the kids dressing up in armor near the Fürstenzug. The guy behind Mira is the Polish man who was doing this unique kind of busking -- dressed up in homemade armor and...

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Brush with fame

Last Sunday, we met Rachel Willis-Sørensen, who is an American opera singer currently at the Dresden Semperoper. She gave a talk in the Dresden ward right after I gave my testimony (her German is...

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A month is short

We are leaving Dresden on tomorrow morning (Wednesday) and heading to Berlin for a couple of days before we fly to Liverpool Saturday night. It turns out that a month goes by really fast! Well, I knew...

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Graffiti in Dresden

Near Prager Straße in Dresden. This looks like sanctioned graffiti to me. At a stop almost at the west end of the #2 Straßenbahn line. I think this is the stop where one time on my mission my companion...

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The Lodge in Liverpool

We arrived at Liverpool John Lennon Airport in the evening. Out front there is a yellow submarine art piece to greet everyone:We carried our luggage 3/4 of a mile to a hotel where we stayed the night...

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More photos from Prague

View south over the Vltava river from Vyšehrad, toward Barrandov Studios which I believe is on the other side of the river around the bend:Night view of Nové město from Kinského zahrada:Night view of...

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Liverpool Organ Day

I was really happy to discover a while ago that we'd be in Liverpool for the annual Liverpool Organ Day -- it seems like I usually find that all the good stuff is happening just after we leave a place,...

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Enjoying the house

Today it is a little cold and rainy and very windy, but a couple of days ago, it was absolutely glorious and I enjoyed hanging laundry outside. The kids even did their math outside in our little back...

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