Home again, home again.

We're back home after a great trip. Dan met the people he hoped to meet and has a lot of work to do on his thesis. We enjoyed spending time with my parents and brother, saw a lot of new things, enjoyed great food, got to know central Prague well enough to not get lost, and had a great time. Maybe I'll blog on some specifics in the coming week or two; there won't be any pictures from us, though, as the camera was lost on the way there by the airline.

A few fun notes:

1. Mommas in Europe have huge strollers! When I brought my Graco, I thought I'd have the biggest stroller in sight and stick out like a sore thumb. Nope! I did stick out - because my stroller was so small. Later, I stuck out because my stroller lost the front left wheels and the Graco became three-wheeled stroller with a right-triangular wheel arangement. It still worked fairly well. I'm glad I read the travel websites which recommended taking a full-sized stroller so that it could double as bed for naps and as a high chair.

2. We don't normally co-sleep, so there was a bit of a learning curve. Thankfully, the beds we stayed in were all fairly low to the ground. One night, John started out at the head of the bed between me and Dan. By the end of the night, he had managed to fall off the foot of the bed twice. We are pros by now, though.

We walked about five miles every day and I was careful to eat a ton. I only had sneakers with me and wore them everywhere. Today, on the way out the door to the grocery store, wearing slides as a change from sneakers, I fell while carrying John down the front porch stairs and sprained my ankle. Thankfully I fell well (something I learned as a junior high school high-jumper) and fell on the diaper bag side instead of on John. A cloth-diaperer's bag can sure be soft! So much for today's list of to-dos.