Monday, June 16, 2008
Litomyšl
We are now in Litomyšl for two days. We toured the castle on Sunday afternoon and walked the town square on Monday. The castle is getting ready to host the Bedrich Šmetana music festival in a few days I think, so we caught a little of the opera practice. The interior of the castle was very beautiful and I really liked the original theatre. The tour guide said that the theatre was originally built solely for the performances by the royal family, which made me think that my big Vankat family should just take over the castle (we’d all fit…there are like a million rooms!) and we could hold regular performances just with our family as actors! I think we’d make good money. After the castle tour we saw a poster for a museum of Josef Vachal’s works (I think he’s an artist), so we took a picture by it since Vachal is one of our family names (even though we really don’t know if he’s related to us or not). We never visited the museum because it was closed on Sunday night and Monday. Sunday night after my first tasty duck dinner, Mílan (our bus driver) taught us a card game called Prši, and a couple on the tour with us taught us how to play a dice game called LCR. We all had lots of fun with the new games! Oh and I’ve wanted to get Grandma a souvenir too, so today we bought some red poppies for her. We’re enjoying our little bit of down time here in Litomyšl!
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I am sooo jealous. We didn't have the opportunity to see the festival or it's treasure of costumes. The photos are great! I'm like you in many ways...I love the kroj and the muzika!
Just a word of advice. Watch Ted when playing prsi. He likes to make the rules up as he goes.
You guys have to make sure you remember these games so you can teach them to us. Did you ask anyone if they play beran? We'll have to have Darlene and Lou reteach us, as I've forgotten everything except drawing the ram's head. It is awesome about the universality of music! Ben has said, too, that people don't smile much. Another thing I've been wondering if you've seen (especially since I saw the picture of the Benjamin store) is people teaching their kids as they go about their daily business. I seemed to see a lot of that when I was there. Also, Ben says that people take their dogs everywhere, and that the dogs are so well-trained that people go into a store, and just tell their dogs to sit outside, and the dogs will just sit there. Have you seen that? Well, back to work (I'm at school, and this was a welcome little break!) Na shledanou!
Well, it's about 10:30 Thurs. night, 6/19, here, so it's about 5:30 Fri. A.M. there. I'm guessing you're in Praha now, but I'm not too sure. Can't wait to hear more! Love you all! Jackie
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