Weekend update: Wet, wet, baby

Highlights of the weekend:

Getting caught in a torrential downpour on Friday evening on my way home after work. I literally had to hang my clothes and put a towel around my head once I walked in my flat. It was crazy... and I didn't make it easy on myself. Resolved to simply walk up the hill home, I refused to stop and wait out the storm under a store awning. No, as they say in Polish: stubborn like a donkey, that is me.

On Saturday, I hit the ceramics fair in the town of Beroun, a short 40 minute train ride from Prague's Hlavni Nadrazi, passing by Karlstejn castle. Together with Steph from work and her friend in from Geneva, we traversed the main square during dry spells, hitting nearly every stall, in search of ART! When the rain fell, which it persistently did intermittently, we successfully scored a table with a smiley elderly Czech lady and a Popular Mechanic magazine reading/pivo drinking Czech man. We were mad shoppers. My big purchases of the day: an off-green, leaf-motif vase; a decorative aqua-brown bowl; and two mugs in similar color family, i.e. green and aqua. Oh, and I bought lavender.... it smells amazing!

Then on Sunday, I continued the arts and crafts theme of the weekend following a morning sermon on faith. After a lovely lunch with Daniel and Hanka, including coffee, poppy seed roll (as well as raisin roll), and pudding, I started my first Slovak pattern cross-stitch. It will be a monotone blue threaded, snow-flake-like pattern in the shape of a coffee table runner. It was so relaxing to do something with my hands. I can't say I'll be changing my career anytime soon, but hopefully I'll be less stressed :)