The rain refuses to go away

Through crypt, museums, and memorials, the rain has remained a constant these past few days. I'm honestly not a fan of this weather. However, Darling insist that the "heat" (nothing compared to Texas heat) is coming.

Tuesday we visited the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodist, where the Czech paratroopers who assassinated the German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, were hiding out till their eventual shootout with the Nazi's and suicide. I enjoyed the trip and I has never been in a crypt before so that was a treat. It was not as spooky as I anticipated, but maybe that's just because I was with a large group of people. I'm not gana dork-out by retelling all the cool historical background that I LOVE about this place, but I was definitely diggin this place.

There was also a one room museum regarding this historical event in the church, and it was really good as well. I wasn't expecting much but its worth looking at it. Like always, I was one of the last ones who was ready to leave. This place is really close to our apartment ( like 3 tram stops) so I might go back on my own.

Today we took a day trip to the village of Lidice outside of Prague. After the assassination of Heydrich, Hitler ordered the destruction of Lidice as a punishment to the Czech people. On June 10, 1942 the Nazis murdered all the men, sent the women to concentration camps, and most of the children died in a gas chamber on the way to another concentration camp. After all the inhabitants were gone, they completely destroyed any remains of the town, going as far as digging out all the graves and cutting down all trees of the village.

In the afternoon, we meet with a women named Jaroslava Sklenickova who survived the concentration camp and returned to her home town of Lidice. She is an amazing women, with lots of enthusiasm. Even when she was talking about her life in the camp, she could still mention "happy" moments, and even laugh. I feel like I could have listened to her talk for hours. testimonial like that are so rare in our time and its hard to imagine that one day all the survivors of this tragedy that was WWII will be gone. I feel extremely grateful to get to spend time with this women and hear her powerful story.


I love all this WWII history we are getting. When I signed up for this trip, I never expected to learn so much history. History is probably by favorite subject ever, so this is heaven. Juan is my witness that one of my favorite channels is the History Channel, and National Geo (which is about the same). I couldn't ask for anything more from this trip. It was like someone planned this trip based on one simple question: 'What would Dana like to do this summer?'

If your cool, you'll check out the links to get more background info. Well on a lighter note, I don't know if I mentioned this but I found some "Prague hot sauce"....kind of. It smell funky but it gets the job done. I don't know why I feel that I always have to end with this but remember, it is the name of my blog.