President Obama in Prague

I wanted to first apologize for my last few postings. Apparently I do have pregnancy brain and forgot temporarily that I could keep adding pictures to the same post and instead made about 6 posts with 4-5 pictures each because I am a moron. Oh well, last month I wore Brian's shoes to the gym and almost tried to eat a bar of soap. I think this month is fairing better so far.

This month started off great because the sun decided to come out in Prague along with Brian's family coming to visit and President Obama stopping by the castle. I decided to try and go see him speak at Prague Castle on Sunday, April 5 with my friend Claire. We were pretty sure it would be impossible since there were only 20,000-30,000 people allowed and her friends were showing up at 4:30am to wait in line. The gates opened at 7am and his speech started at 10am. Claire and I decided we would meet up at 8am and hope for the best.

Well, the best happened for sure. Claire noticed some volunteers giving out tickets to stand in the front of the regular crowd and thought we should ask if they do anything extra for expectant mothers. I laughed and thought no way, but turns out she was right. We got escorted to the front of security and got to go to the special 'ticket only' section up front. Claire then noticed a special seated section for disabled people and women with small children. Turns out expectant mothers also got to sit in that section, a little behind the VIP crowd. So not only did we get to see President Obama speak, we got to sit down, have free water, and our own port-o-potty. It was an awesome morning! Definitely a highlight of my stay in Prague so far.


Everyone scared me into thinking I would get my camera taken by security so all I had was my camera phone. But trust me that is President Obama up there speaking.


We were amazed at how many snipers were everywhere. It's a little scary since the area was so confined and it felt like we were surrounded.


Claire and I waving our flags for the speech - while seated I may add.


President Obama leaving with Michelle Obama. They are walking down the stairs from the platform, Michelle Obama can be seen as the one with a white blur on her. To think, I only had to go to Prague to see the President and First Lady of the USA.