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Late Friday morning, we planned to tour the Jewish Quarter, and I was particularly excited about the cemetery. Unfortunately, Friday was Good Friday/ Passover, which meant that everything was closed. All I could do was peer through the bars of the fence into the cemetery.Instead, we climbed to see the ginormous metronome at the top of Letna Hill. Garrett and I both counted the steps and managed to come out with a different total. You can see most of the bridges spanning the Vltava River and even pick out Kate and Garrett's apartment building across town. It was a glorious day: spring seemed to be coming to Prague this day as it had the day before in Vienna. We crossed the park and headed back to the Prague Castle. This time, we toured St. Vitus Cathedral, poked our heads in St George's Basilica, spent a long time in the museum, where I realized that I know next to nothing about European history, and walked through Golden Lane, where I saw medieval torture chambers and "the rack," a la The Princess Bride.Later that afternoon, we headed over to Kate's sister's to see and have dinner with her family. It was fun to see the Polaks again, spend time talking with them, and see how much their kids had grown in the last two years since I'd seen them. They spent a while at dinner telling knock-knock jokes, which Mark, 3, didn't quite grasp the basics of. He still tried to tell one, which set me to rolling with laughter, tears streaming down my face.

Saturday morning, veeery early, was my departure. Kate and Garrett rode with me on the train to the bus I needed to catch to the airport. I was very thankful for their presence in the station, pre-6am, as there was a man in the station while we waited prone to fits of prolonged screaming. And, when I arrived safely in Atlanta, Laura was there to keep me awake all day until I crashed at 9:30 for another 12 full hours of sleep. I suppose I'll just have to go back sometime to see the Jewish quarter.

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