A leisurely day

Wednesday, we decided to have a day that was far less busy -- and it was wonderful. We started off by sleeping in and having pastries in the room, and then around 11AM or so we set off for the Prague TV Tower, which stands out across Prague as a very "new" spire amongst the old. They had these rather funny sculptures of babies crawling on the tower!



The food was reasonable, there were very few people there, and the view was tremendous.



We then went back to the hotel (after stopping at the monastery brewery again, naturally) and picked up our tickets to the National Ballet, where they were performing "Zlatovláska", or "Goldilocks". This was not the story of the three bears. This was a Czech-written ballet about a cook who went on a quest and won the girl. The theater was absolutely gorgeous!



The ballet was very entertaining, the music was perfect. A fine end to the Prague chapter of our story, we then walked out into the Prague night and got one last look at this gorgeous city all lit up:




So today, our only job is to get to the train station, and board a train for Vienna.