czech yourself before you wreck yourself

we started out our time in the czech republic with a 100 mile / 3 day bikeride through moravia in the southern part of the country. we hadn't ever done a multiple day bike trip before and for sure wont ever again without a gel bicycle seat and padded shorts! but it was a great time, we saw a lot of cool towns and visited some amazing caves in the karst region.

partied like it was 1989 at a prague dance club on 80s night for lauras 30th birthday... it has been ages since we'd heard most of the songs, but kirk danced the 'locomotion' like a rockstar.

also visited cesky krumlov -- our favorite city on the whole trip. a beautiful town that was mostly untouched by the 1970s concrete block architecture that plagues the rest of eastern europe, as it had been abandoned by the germans that lived there after wwII and is just becoming resettled. we went on some awesome hikes and a 35km kayaking trip, dropping through chutes in the many dams on the vlatava river like we were on the logride at disneyland and stopping off in beautiful villages all along the way-- we didnt even have to leave our kayak for pizza and drinks served to us on the water!