Czech Hockey Adventure: House Guests

This past weekend we were ask by our friend Dot to babysit her dog, Maysea as she was out of town for the weekend. Of course we said yes as our whole house has dogs back at home except me. But I am a fan of dogs so had no problem having her stay the weekend...granted I forgot how much they smell, and the shedding that happens. She is a black lab and very well trained, kind of reminds of two amazing black labs Mac and Riley) that I used to babysit back in high school. After this weekend I think it's hands down that if I were to get a dog it would be a black lab...but maybe they would be and outside dog. It sure was fun to take Maysea on walks and we even took her to practice with us where we had her running alongside for our warm up and cool down. Let's just say she was pretty tired that night as when I was petting her later on and she couldn't even keep her eyes open! Too funny! I must say that we all had a blast taking care of Maysea, and hope she comes to stay again!

Rebecca,me, Jeni and Arielle with Maysea at Letna Park

The other girls with Maysea, notice the beautiful background!

Myself, Arielle and Maysea...I'm trying to get her turned around for a picture, as the background is super beautiful. Of course that never worked!

The background I was trying to capture...with Maysea and myself in it.

Then on Sunday it was Jeni's Birthday...the big 2-5, she's now a quarter century like me. Kind of scary really. After our game on Sunday we headed off for some North American food at TGI Friday's. It was sooo good and worth the expense! Then after we had a party at our house to celebrate. It was the first party at our new flat, and the last. Kind of funny as most people were hanging out on the floor or one of the four lawn chairs that we have because of the lack of furniture. Pretty much our whole team came, along with two of our friends from Salzburg. We just played them that day and they ended up spending the night and a couple of days touring around Prague. Chelsa and Jeni tried to organise some games to play, but the Czech girls weren't quite having it. But we did end up convincing them to play Chubby Bunny...hilarious! Jeni, myself and three other teammates played. I haven't heard some of the Czech girls laugh like that before!

It was also super funny to watch how awkward it was when Jeni received her gifts from some of our teammates. I can't remember if I've mentioned this before or not, but it's normal here for friends to kiss on the lips when greeting each other, or for special occasions. As in if you haven't seen a good friend for a long time, you would say "Ahoj!" and then give them a quick peck on the lips. Yes, very awkward to see that if you have no idea what's going on and of course the first kiss you receive from a friend is also awkward. Granted that kind of means they've accepted you and you're one of locals. Well Jeni's not really a touch/feely person. So this was super funny. Chelsa and I knew it was coming, so we pretty much lost it when all the girls lined up to give her gifts and birthday kiss. Chelsa got it on camera so it was even better! But Jeni was a great sport and it now just like one of the Czechs.