ADOPTION QUEST: Introducing... Sophia

Welcome to our family!  She is 5 weeks old and so adorable.  Check out her blog at maheabrlas.blogspot.com for all the excitement!

A New Chapter In Life

After 14 years at Mudd Library and over 22 years working in a library setting, I am leaving all that I know for a new office job so I can have a normal nine to five schedule.  Or should I say eight to four days! Hello Financial Aid and Admissions!

2014 PRAGUE: Day 1 CLE-IAD

June 25

Cleveland - Washington DC Dulles

Our summer vacation trip is finally here!  We are so excited to be traveling to Europe to checkout Prague!  Here we go!

We had time to have lunch before catching our 1st plane -- Panini's Bar and Grill

 

Uh oh, it's a propeller plane, and we're sitting right next to it!

So glad to be in Washington DC!  The short propeller plane ride was rough on me!  I'm not feeling too good now.  Wow, we only had time to use the restrooms and walk over to our gate.  We are back on our next plane ride!

2014 PRAGUE: Evening 1 FRA-PRG

June 25

Washington DC - Frankfurt - Prague

Aloha Frankfurt, Germany!  It's Aaron's first time in Germany; my first time in Frankfurt. Our long flight was great!  We ended up not having the 3-seat row to ourselves as I had planned, but we were in Economy Plus with more leg room and we had our own entertainment screens to view newly released movies, etc. We even had complimentary dinner and breakfast!  We exited through this fancy airplane stairs into nice 70 degree weather and bright blue skies.

Shuttles had to take us to another part of the airport, like on the other side.

We had some time to grab lunch before catching our last plane ride.  Oddly we picked panini style sandwiches for our snack, with coffee.  Is there a theme going on?  Everyone has been so nice and friendly the whole trip over.  And it was easy to navigate around, even if they are speaking German here.  It made things easy for us.

We are still in good spirits.  Prague... here we come!

2014 PRAGUE: Prague Airport & our shuttle to the Little Quarter

June 26

Aloha Prague, Czech Republic!!  The Brlas' are here!  We were blessed again with nice cool weather and clear weather.  Since Vaclav Havel Airport was small we didn't have to walk around too much to retrieve our luggage.  We breezed through customs since we had no alcohol or cigarettes.  We did have a bit of trouble getting some Czech koruna (Kč) from the ATM machines.  We had to get some money from a Cash Exchange vendor with a not-so-great exchange rate, US$1 = Kč19.  Oh well.

Our driver Martin was waiting for us at the exit.  It was so nice to see "Aaron Brlas" on a sign, and spelled correctly!  Our shuttle van was just across the street and the drive over to the Little Quarter (Malá Strana) was very pleasant.  Martin was very mellow and informative.  Just arriving in our neighborhood and passing the Prague Castle and St. Nicholas Church made me verklempt -- so overwhelmed that I forgot to take any pictures!  Well we have some time to do just that.  Because we are finally here!