Had the best time on a three-day adventure to Prague, Czech Republic. Most of the time we spent at the Aquapalace. It’s a hotel within an inside/outside pool park.
The pool area had many slides, a lazy river that went around the whole park & tons of awesome areas for the kids. The hotel was nice and the staff very welcoming!
We spent only a few hours in Prague (Praha) and it was nice! the Prague castle was amazing. It was too crowded so we weren’t able to go inside but just the surrounding areas were very pleasant.
Cruise into St. Petersburg, Russia with Royal Caribbean part 1
On our Northern European Cruise with Royal Caribbean we stopped at St. Petersburg, Russia.
It’s not often I visit locations and don’t find them fascinating. St. Petersburg, Russia is a unique modern city rich with history. We were only there for a day as our cruises left 12 hours later. The time we spent in Russia we learned a lot about the culture and history.
The State HermitageMuseum
We spent a good few hours walking around The State Hermitage Museum. The museum is one of the busiest and full of tourists which can drive you crazy. The museum is a large complex of six buildings, of those six only five are open to tourists. Don’t let the size fool you. You can spend days here and still not see everything.
As the second-largest art museum in the world, the museum houses several art collections from Catherine the Great whom purchased the impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. Many of the art pieces still remain in great condition to this day.
The building occupies 233,345 sq. meters in total area. With over 1,014,806 works of art, 1,125,975 numismatic objects, 214,771 other items such as; Egyptian antiques, classical antiques (the Room of Great Vases), Italian renaissance, 808,695 Archaeological artifacts, and 14,016 arms and armory.
Like I said before you can spend days here and still not see everything.
We spent about 2-3 hours roaming the museum and learning much about each different unique piece within the walls of The State Hermitage.
If you want to visit the State Hermitage, I highly recommend you plan on spending a few days roaming the museum. However, if you were like us and could only stay for a little I would suggest finding what part of the museum you’d like to visit first and go from there. It’s full of amazing pieces of art and priceless artifacts, you will never want to leave… unless you’re being pushed around because of the many other tourists then you’ll want to walk through at a fast pace.
HEY!!! I’m back! I’ve been missing in action because I’ve been moving and trying to figure out life since I’m not employed at the moment.
Since October we’ve been living in Germany! I LOVE IT!! It is our second time here! There are so many opportunities we get while living in Europe.
From FALL to WINTER it has been a dramatic change. We saw leaves change and fall off the trees to SNOW already and it’s only the end of November.
We have been to the Zoo, where we re-created a memory from the last time we were here (see below)! The Zoo here is amazing. The cages are open, which to some is scary, but it’s so fun.
2011 2018
We’ve also been to Christmas Markets, which are HUGE here! The Christmas markets are amazing. I’ve been to several and am excited to get to more! ONE of the many things I enjoy about Christmas markets is the mugs they give out. They are adorable!
Now, about my job situation. It is hard to find a job at the moment. It’s not that I’m not working on it, it’s because there aren’t many jobs where I am, that will allow me to work around the school for the kids.
This also gives me more time to be able to go back to school for my MBA, I’ll get my degree in 2020!!! This gives me a change to get back into my BLOG and into fitness.
Now that I’m back… tell me what more you’d like to see??!?
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The pool area had many slides, a lazy river that went around the whole park & tons of awesome areas for the kids. The hotel was nice and the staff very welcoming!
the Prague castle was amazing. It was too crowded so we weren’t able to go inside but just the surrounding areas were very pleasant.
