Colorado - Christmas 23. - 28. 12. 2016

I has become a tradition to go for Christmas to Colorado. This year wasn't any different. We spent the Christmas with Eric's side of the family. Last day we took a trip to Georgetown to ride a old train. We hoped to see also two of our friends who lives in Colorado, but unfortunately that didn't happen.
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Uz se to stalo tradici, ze na vanoce jezdime do Colorada. Tento rok nebyl jiny. Stravili jsme vanoce s rodinou z Ericovi strany. Posledni den jsme se vydali do Georgetown a projeli se starym vlackem. Doufali jsme take, ze se uvidime se dvemi kamaradkami, ktere ziji v Coloradu, ale to se nakonec neuskutecnilo.
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Czech Christmas dinner and Christmas party 17. - 18. 12. 2016

This year it was for the 10th time we organized Czech Christmas dinner. As usually I made fried fish, potato salad, soup and a lot of Czech Christmas cookies. This year about 14 different kinds! It was a great evening with our friends.
On Sunday we invited other friends for our now traditional Christmas party. We played a lot of games and had fun as every year.
PHOTOS from Czech Christmas dinner
PHOTOS from Christmas party

Tento rok jsme uz po desate organizovali tradicni ceskou vanocni veceri. Jako obvykle jsem usmazila rybu, udelala bramborovy salat, polevku a hodne ceskeho vanocniho cukrovi. Okolo 14ti druhu! Byl to super vecer s nasimi kamarady.
V nedeli jsme pak pozvali kamarady na nasi uz tradicni vanocni party. Hrali jsme hodne her a uzili si to jako kazdy rok.
FOTKY z Ceske Vanocni vecere
FOTKY z vanocniho vecirku

Pinecrest Lake - Thanksgiving 23. - 27. 11. 2016

Last three years we went for Thanksgiving to Yosemite, this year we decided to change our tradition. We went with three other families to Pinecrest Lake area, where we rented a cabin for four nights. Not all the families stayed the whole time, but we still had a great time. Eric and I went for a long hike the first day, but unfortunately Eric's knee started to hurt so the following days we were quite lazy. On Friday we found little snow and took Adam for his first sledding. On Saturday afternoon/evening the storm came in and we woke up to nice snow powder outside. It was shame that we didn't have more time to enjoy it.
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Posledni tri roky jsme jezdili na Den Dikuvzdani do Yosemite, tento rok jsme se rozhodli nasi tradici trochu pozmenit. S dalsimi tremi rodinami jsme jeli do oblesti jezera Pinecrest, kde jsme si pronajali chatu na ctyri noci. Ne vsechny rodiny zustali po celou dobu, ale i tak jsme si to uzili. Eric a ja jsme se vydali na delsi vyslap prvni den, ale bohuzel Erica zacalo bolet koleno a nasledujici dny jsme byli docela lenivi. V patek jsme nasli trochu snehu a vzali Adamka na prvni projizdku na sanich. V sobotu vecer prisla vanice a my jsme se probudili do bile nadilky. Skoda, ze jsme si ji nemohli vice uzit.
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Yosemite 12.- 13. 11. 2016

Last few year we were going for Thanksgiving to Yosemite. This year we choose to go somewhere else, so we decided to take a trip to the NP some other weekend. We managed to get a heated cabin in Half Dome village (used to be Curry village). On Saturday we hiked up to Vernal falls through the mist trail which was open. On Sunday we went to Colombia rock, to see the views of Half Dome before we headed back home.
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Poslednich par let jsme jezdili na Den Dikuvzdani do Yosemite. Tento rok jsme se vyrazime  nekam jinam, ale rozhodli jsme se vyjet do Yosemite jiny vikend. Podarilo se nam zamluvit vyhrivany stan v Half Dome Village (puvodne Curry Village). V sobotu jsme si vysli k vodopadum Vernal zkrz cestu, kde strikalo z vodopadu, ktera byla otevrena. V nedeli jsme si vysli k vyhlidce Colombia, abychom se podivali na Half Dome nez jsme vyrazili zpet domu.
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Rudolfov, Hodonin 11. - 19. 9. 2016

Our last week in the Czech Republic we spent mainly visiting family. First we stopped at Rudofov to visit my aunts and uncle, who couldn't make it to our family reunion. Then we drove to my home town Hodonin. First few days we took trips around Hodonin. We visited Straznice and Mikulcice. The rest of the days we walked around the town and were preparing for our family reunion. On Saturday our family came together and I also managed to go for short time to my high school 20 year reunion. The next day we pack up and drove to Beroun, and on Monday we flew back to California.
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Nas posledni tyden v Ceske republice jsme stravili hlavne navstevou rodiny. Nejdrive jsme se zastavili v Rudolfove navstivit me tety a stryce, kteri nemohli prijet na rodinnou seslost. Pak jsme jeli do meho rodneho mesta Hodonina. Prvnich par dni jsme delali vylety po okoli. Navstivili jsme Straznici a Mikulcice. Zbytek tydne jsme prochazeli meso a pripravovali jsme se na rodinnou seslost. V sobotu se sesla nase rodina a take se mne podatilo se na chvili podivat na nas skolni sraz ze stredni skoly po 20ti letech. Nasledujici den jsme se sbalili a jeli do Berouna a pak v pondeli jsme leteli zpet do Kalifornie.
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Sumava 4. - 11. 9. 2016

As a child I was visiting mountains Sumava about twice a year - in the winter and in the summer. In the winter we skied, in the summer we hiked, and picked up mushrooms and blueberries. I was looking forward to visiting places from my childhood and showing them to Eric and Adam. We had a great weather for all the hikes, but not so much for mushrooms. :)
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Jako dite jsme jezdili na Sumavu asi dvakrat do roka - v zime a lete. V zime jsme lyzovali, v lete jsme chodili na tury a sbirali houby a boruvky. Tesila jsem se na prochazeni a ukazani techto mist z meho detstvi Ericovi a Adamkovi. Meli jsme skvele pocasi na vsechny tury, ale ne tak moc na houby.
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Beroun 1. - 4. 9. 2016

Our third stop during our visit of the Czech Republic was Beroun. My best friend from college lives there. Since the first of September was the first day of school, we spent the few days in town.  Two older Heda and Jirka children went to school, while the youngest one was keeping company to Adam. On Saturday we went to see dragon boat races, and on Sunday we left after very nice lunch for our next destination.
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Naše třetí zastávka v České republice byl Beroun. Moje nejlepsi kamarádka z vysoké tam bydlí. Jelikož prvního zaří byl první den školy, tak jsme strávili těch pár dnů ve meste. Dvě starší děti Hedy a Jirky šly do školy, zatímco ta nejmladší trávila čas s Adámkem. V sobotu jsme se šli podivat na závody draččích lodí a v neděli jme po velice dobrém obědě vyrazili za naší další zastávkou.
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