May 18

This is the last day of the tour. We all checked out of the Hotel Zlaty Lev in Jablonec and drove into Prague.

Petr driving our bus to Prague

very narrow streets

Then we checked into our hotel in the Old Town, and roamed around.
 We watched the clock in the square, paid triple prices for the privilege of sitting at a restaurant right across from the clock - outrageous! But we did it anyway for the experience. I had a $13 panini sandwich!!

We walked around various streets to find one of the old entrance gates.

                                                                                                                       

 after lunch Guy & Stephney decided to have a ice cream cone- Guy as always had vanilla. 

More lovely architecture.

                                                                             We walked the Charles Bridge and bought some artist work. The bridge was mobbed with people.

This woman a singing opera (and she was blind reading brail).

This man has a puppet dancing a strumming a guitar to music. 

 Margo & J-ME on the Charles Bridge, sharing a lovely day together.

This is the other side of the Charles Bridge (not as crowded)

Prague Castle

We window shopped.

Later, we ate dinner in a restaurant with live Gypsy music.

Guy enjoying his last dark Czech beer.

Margo & J-ME both wearing their necklaces they got in Czech. J-ME is fire polish glass and Margo is wearing amber. Both looked very nice.

Seeing a street artist blowing bubbles

A fire blower throwing sticks.

After dinner, Debra purchased some moldavite ( which she had been looking for all over the place). Then several of us had late night desert of knedliky (fruit dumpling) and ice cream.

Most people were flying home in the morning, so hugs and good byes were made outside the hotel.

To find out more about our next Bead Tour- go to www.wildthingsbeads.com

J-Me and Guy are the owners of Wild Things Beads, a small family run import business specializing in Czech glass beads and buttons and finding the unusual to bring to their warehouse. They also run working bead tours to Jablonec and Hong Kong. Their warehouse is located deep in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, and can be reached by phone at (530)743 1339 or on the web at www.wildthingsbeads.com. They are also open by appointment at their warehouse.