Prague Journal

Tuesday, February 1, 2005.

This evening was spent with our good friends from seven years ago, Pavel and Ivka and their four children. Pavel is a theoretical chemist, whom we had met through Rick’s Israeli cousin Ronnie. Ivka is a psychologist who works mostly with parents of hearing-impaired children. Pavel is a great cook and Ivka makes wonderful desserts, so again we had more food than we should have! It was interesting seeing their children after so many years. Their boys, Tomas and Matej, are now teenagers and the little girls are not so little – both are in school now (Rut is 7 and Sarah is 10) and play the piano (as does Ivka). The kids are quite fluent in English, having lived in California when Pavel had a research grant at UC-Irvine last year. The whole family is athletic, so they were skiing last week in Switzerland, and will go skiing again next week in Bohemia, not too far from where we were last weekend.

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