Sleepless in Prague (Lew's version)

Our regular routine of reading before bedtime was carried out in the apartment, just like back in TO. True enough, this tired out our eyes so we hit the lights, rolled over and fell asleep...or at least we thought so.

2:45 am. Both of us woke up to several noises outside. I was having paranoid feelings of people coming in to our apt, mosquito's biting, and hearing lots of people's voices from across the street in the pub. What we both heard were people's voices talking, some techno music, which we first thought were the slot machines in the pub, and some cars passing by. There were moments of utter silence, with the high frequency white noise, and a loop of techno music playing over and over, no lyrics.

The windows were ajar, for fear of bugs coming in and biting us. We had no fan, or a constant hum that comforted Michael. I was up so that kept him up, too. Funny enough, he claims that my snoring comforts him and lulls him to sleep. So sweet, I think. (I think he also means it sincerely.) So we tossed and turned, with a t-shirt to cover our eyes, our arms to cover our ears, and we still were wide awake.

Since we could not sleep, we ended up talking - Shabbat practices, Kashrut, plans of raising our future families, and about our families. Lots to talk about. When we exhausted our topics to talk about, we thought of a plan for the next few nights to survive the night and have a good sleep. We would go in search of a cheap classical or relaxation CD and play it so we could sleep.

5:00 am Eventually, Munkee decided to just closed the windows, and that did it. It blocked the sounds of the techno loop music and we were able to finally sleep.