Křivoklát and Crossbows

The Prague Castle doesn't look very, well, castle-ish. So today we trained through pretty river valleys to Křivoklát. Thick walls, arrow slits, gates, towers, perched on a steep hill - the girls could imagine Kings and Queens living there. The 90 minute tour (in Czech) of the interior was a bit much even for me, but the girls were very patient (and we got ice cream and beer in the castle courtyard to raise our flagging spirits. I love that you can get ice cream and beer in castle courtyards here. The U.S. would be a much happier place if ice cream and beer -good beer in BIG cups- were more readily available.) We had fun crawling around the towers and peeking into shops, but the coolest thing was shooting crossbows. The girls' videos are on their own blogs. David doesn't have a blog so he gets to be on mine.