PF Flyer

Spent the morning looking for cheap dress-up close without any success. Did stumble upon Wenceslas Square and had a good look around it. Inspiring seeing a monument to a young man who set himself on fire in 1969 protesting communist rule. Twenty years later a rally commemorating that protest started the Velvet Revolution which ended with the Communist government leaving Czechoslovakia about a year later. Not much for detailed history but it’s nice to see that individual acts (along with a whole lot of other circumstances I suspect) can lead to significant change.

Since we didn’t find any clothes we decided to do the best we could with what we had and assumed it would be good enough. I think we were wrong. It may have been us being sensitive but we didn’t seem too well received by some in attendance and the left over KGB lady usher. We got in ok and were directed to our seats. I looked around and saw lots of folks taking pictures so I discretely take out my camera and take one photo of the ceiling. The lady usher from hell busts me done and sternly tells me no photos. I apologized and said I thought it was ok since everyone else was taking photos. She looked at me as if to say “YFSA – if you didn’t come in REI Northwest attire and weren’t so obviously American maybe I would let you take a few photos but since you don’t get it put your fucking camera away, shut up and sit down”. I thought I saw an AK47 under her coat so I did what she said.

The concert (at least the part I saw – more on that later) was incredible as was the inside of the building. Really do love the orchestra part. Still don’t get the soprano part however. Can’t tell if it’s the words I don’t understand or what. The large lady with ample cleavage really had some range but it just doesn’t do much for me at all. A little past half way through the concert I had a coughing fit. It is hard to time your coughs during loud parts of the music or clapping breaks. Val nicely suggested I meet her in the hall after the concert. I obeyed as always.

I am glad to have witnessed the hall scene. They had a couple of screens showing the live action (just like sporting events) and you could hear the music (kind of). Some of the ushers including my friend were standing around watching. When a waltz song came on several of them including my friend started to waltz around the hallways. I wished I could dance it would have been fun to join them. Changed my impression of miss kgb too (a little).

After the concert we went to dinner at the fancy expensive restaurant that son in law suggested. Turns out it wasn’t as expensive as we thought. Got a dinner for two that had lots of meaty treats (sorry Mia) and included apple strudel for dessert. It was good and the most we have eaten since we left Anacortes.

We decided to wander a bit to find a Metro stop and got lost. Ended up in the complete opposite direction than I thought we were going at the river in a spot we had not been. Offered great views and wasn’t too far from a Metro stop so we walked along the river and enjoyed the scenery.

I titled this PF Flyer at the start with some vague reference to Prague Philharmonic then finally realized before I published it would be PP not PF. I like PF better and have a history of getting initials wrong sometimes so just deal with it. YYGG.