I'm doing the lesson plans I planned on doing yesterday tonight, per usual, and I am procrastinating still further to give an update on my weekend. On Thursday night, I walked to Pavel and Misa's to have home-cooked Indian food and wine and catch up on the recent developments in our lives and reminisce together about good travels past. After work on Friday, I met up with Laura in the center at a cafe for a coffee with ice cream. Afterwards, we decided to buy some of the seasonal fresh Liberec wine and bring it up to the cafeteria of the mall and drink it while we did some work on our computers and discussed our weekend plans. We came home to find Katrina in pajamas and excited for a movie night...It was a very relaxing end to our first week. Our franchise director told me about a festival going on this weekend in which participating museums, churches, and other historical buildings were open to the public to tour. I told Dustin and his girlfriend Petra about this, and they agreed to join Katrina, Laura, and I on our tour of the city. We slept in and had a breakfast of crepes and bacon (compliments of Katrina), and met up with Dustin and Petra before touring the city hall and museum here. While waiting for a tour to start in the museum, we were browsing the library and saw that a woman was their with a basket of three little sleeping kittens! Petra is Czech and told us that the woman was selling the kittens but had one, the runt, that she was willing to give away for free. I have been talking about getting a dog since we got here, but a cat makes more sense since we wouldn't have to worry so much about taking weekend trips and being home several times a day to take it on walks and such. The little brownish/grey, long-furred, blue-eyed kitten will be coming home with us in a week or so when she is ready to leave her mother! I am so excited to have a little love boat to curl up with me at night! Our day continued with beautiful sights, funny photos, and a hilarious night for Laura and I who decided to walk to a carnival and meet up with a co-worker and some acquaintances for the night. I ended up going on the high, spinning swings, and we all went to two bars, played guitar and sang in a pub for over an hour, continuing on to a disco to dance a bit, and making several memories before heading back home. We didn't get in until 4 or so. My plans for today were not foiled, however, and Dustin and I went on a bike ride in the morning back up to where the carnival was to see an old church and later back to the city to tour another church. Tonight, we ladies went grocery shopping and I cooked my mom's meatballs and sauce, but I confused the unmarked salt container for the equally unmarked and textured sugar, so I had a hard time salvaging the meal. With Kat's help and some instinct, the food was still very good and we are all very full. This upcoming week should be very fun with friends coming over for dinner on Tuesday, a ballet performance with the same friends on Wednesday, and a tea and (musical) jam session on Friday. I may head to Cesky Raj or Czech Paradise this weekend, too. My goal is to go to Germany and meet up with my friend Flo for one of the next three weekends, but I'm not sure if and when that will happen yet. Back to lesson planning!
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