Saturday, August 23, 2008

transportation

Here are some pictures I've taken over the last week. The theme: some of the forms of transportation we've experienced here thus far.

Last weekend, we celebrated Jonah's birthday (on my birthday) with my dad, taking a train ride through a scenic valley on a historic train, powered by a steam engine. My dad charmed his way inside the engine with Jonah. The rough, yet friendly, train conductor showed Jonah the fire that heats the coal. He asked Jonah in Czech: "Do you want to see hell?" Jonah nodded, but as soon as the conductor opened the heater door, Jonah went looking for Daddy.

The fun day, albeit coldest of the summer here, culminated with Jonah test-driving his battery-powered monster jeep, a present from his Czech Grandpa. Love at first drive.

The other pics are taken inside the Prague metro (subway) and trams. Enjoy.







cute train station:


my dad, his wife, dog Cotie and Mr. Jonah in his new monster jeep:


putting together a train track of my dad's childhood model train (Jonah asked him where his train was as soon as we walked in the door. He had remembered for weeks that my dad had one!)


waiting for a tram & riding a tram


at a metro (subway) station:




and a cool art shot of an underpass:

4 comments:

MaryAnn Bottman said...

The metro subway looks a lot cleaner than the ones here in the US.

bakhazuka said...

can't wait to see Prague. Ah someday!! Enjoy as much as you can. More pics please!!

Michael5000 said...

Pretty damn cool. Love the steam train.

Did Tim get one of those jeep jobbies for his birthday too?

Tereza said...

No, Tim and I got a real car instead. But about that in another post.