Some more pictures!!!

Ok, so I think I am all updated on photos now. Well, it's as updated as it's going to get anyway. There is a lot to choose from , so I might make another post just so there aren't like 40 pictures in this post :) These photos are from the weekend that we spent in Moravia, which I have already talked a lot about. So, if you want a refresher, just look back at the post from that. It saves me from having to write it all out again. Again, if you have any requests, let me know! I added a couple of the ones that I think are kinda funny too!

1) These are cushions from the Gregor Mendel museum...they didn't really have a purpose, they were just supposed to show something about genes....I know, I don't know why they belong in a museum either

2) St. Barbara Church in the town of Adamov, which contains the altar in picture 3. I like how all of the churches in this country are very nondescript on the outside, and on the inside they contain all sorts of treasures. Life lesson right there.

3) Wooden Gothic atlarpiece, called the Zwetti Altar. It is very famous, however I was in line for the bathroom for most of the information session, which was kinda a bummer.

4) First, note the deer on top of the stone pillar thing. Second, note the position of the deer. Third, wonder how in the world the deer got that way. Fourth, join me in laughter...because it is flat out ridiculous!

5) Some friends and I about to board some boats for the continuation of our cave tour. It was pretty sweet!

6) Looking up at an opening in the caves. We are several hundred feet below the opening. It was snowing into the opening, and there is a lake below us at the bottom. It was sooo gorgeous.

7) A cool cave feature.

8) A stalagtite called the "needle." Bet you can't guess why.

9) Me...in the cave.

10) I added this picture by mistake. It is a picture of a marble, that is supposed to look like a pea, in the Gregor Mendel museum.

11) Carly and I in front of the largest barrel of wine in the world that is still used today. It was probably 12 feet tall.

12) Row of barrels full of wine.

13) Storehouse of wine. Some of it was going to be auctioned...but they didn't have anything older than 1970 stored there.

14) Ok, there is a legend in the Czech Republic, that if you leave a coin at a place that you visit, you will return someday. That is why there are so many coins on the wall of this wine cellar. I am pointing at the one that I added.

15) The restaurant associated with the wine cellar was called the Templar Order...this guy was decoration...it really felt like I was in the 13th century.

16) This "sculpture" has a funny story behind it. If you notice, the middle spire is bent at the top. They say that the guy who was working on the sculpture didn't get paid on time, and so he messed up the sculpture on purpose in order to get back at his employers.

17) Downtown Brno.

18) Memorial of Peace on Prace Hill.

19) "Gate to Heaven." Local cloister in Tisnov.

20) Different angle of the cloister in Tisnov.