Sightseeing and surprises

Yesterday, our adventures take us to Kutna Hora, an old mining town where the famous All-Saints' Church is, along with the ossuary.
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The bus ride was just over an hour and not bad. When we got there, some people naturally clumped together and decided to stay with us to find our way around. The first couple we met were Marcus and Simone from Colonne, Germany. When we eventually got to the church, we were awestruck by the art work created using human bones. They were just fascinating! Words could not describe what our eyes saw so we took lots of photos. Here is the link: http://www.kostnice.cz/.
On our way to find a bench to consume our home-made deli sandwoch, we met another couple, from Jersey, Steve and Yulia. We found out that Yulia has family friends in TO and so Michael wanted to keep in touch to do the Russian geography sometime.
The weather in Kunta Hora was very wet and cold, and we were dressed for it, thank goodness. All of a sudden, we were craving the warmth we had when we first arrived here in Prague. It turns out that this might be the average seasonal temperatures, since previously, we spoke to a local and they said that the hot weather was unusual for Prague in the summers.
In addition to the ossuary, we also saw the St. Barbara's cathedral, which had an unusual architecture. http://www.travel.cz/guide/126/index_en.html
Returning back to Prague, we caught a bus and sat in the front seats so we would not have to get dizzy looking at the side windows. It turned out to be a good idea, until we realized that the heat was on and we were sitting directly in front of the vent. Our legs were warm and I even managed to fall asleep. So did Michael, except he had a funny episode where his head was leaning on the glass window, but due to the sheer size and weight of it, it slid along the window, allowing his face to drag on the glass pane. There were 2 boys sitting opposite our side and they saw this and started to recap what had happened with Michael. They had a good laugh and Michael also thought it was funny, too.
the bus dropped us off at the last station on one of the lines and we went about exploring the area again. We had been there previously, on a mall hunt but were disappointed with what we found. This time, we had enough time to visit IKEA as well as the adjacent building to the mall. IKEA here is so different, funkier stuff and they already got their NEW items in. If this is the new trend IKEA is coming out with, then we got a sneak preview, otherwise, it was just a tease. Here are some more of the perks at IKEA in Europe:

1. coin deposit lockers to store your bags so yhou can shop comfortably.
2. Free filtered water dispenser to quench your thirst
3. Free refills from the soda fountain
4. good quality schwinnies
Next door, we came across 2 stores of interest. A pet store and a furniture store. Pet stores here, we think, are more like zoos. Instead of just the regular cats, dogs, fish, birds, rabbits and rodents, they also had 2 wild animals such as the marmoset and the patagonium. It looked so wrong to see them in a pet store when we would normally find these animals in the zoo.
Then we enter the furniture store called Jespen (http://www.jespen.cz/). You really have to check out the website. They carry all Italian imported furniture and they are just to die for. Funky and more importantly, functional, unlike some that are funky and useless. When we saw the pieces in the store, we started drooling. Even the kitchen design showroom stores here, which we have looked at the windows of, were gorgeous! This made long for a house to furnish.
Enough of daydreaming....today, we visit the Loretto and perhaps visit the Palace of Books again (this place is so huge, it is bigger than Chapters or Indigo, with 4 floors of books!!!), and just back on the Charles Bridge.