The first week after vacation

Someone wise once said: "nobody needs rest so badly as the one who just returned from vacation". That's exactly true.

After 5 wonderful days in Prague full of beautiful sightseeing, good time with friends, and of course good meal with Czech beer, coming back to the office is really hard.

The first week in the office was fast and full of small tasks related to things that were missed while I was away. Finally I seemed to get up with everything, so this coming week should be more productive.

The number of daily visitors of Convert-me.Com dropped significantly last week. The site position in Google search results became worse. Looks like I need to investigate what is causing this. Being banned by MSN for unknown (well, unknown for me) reason, then loosing positions with Google is not very optimistic. Hope I'll manage to identify the problem and eliminate it.

Holidays were good, but short. Back to work!

Our holidays in Prague were very good, but too short. We walked around Prague, consumed lots of meat and very good beer, listened to jazz music, visited Karlovy Vary and enjoyed our 5 days in Czech Republic very much. Now we're back to Yekaterinburg and back to work.

While we were in Prague, Yekaterinburg got another portion of snow. The picture displays Anna working hard to get the car out of it.

Off to Prague!

We got our visas, flight tickets and hotel reservation from the agency. Our flight takes off in 11 hours. The things aren't yet packed, my wife has not yet come home from her office. But in any case we're going to be in Prague in 15 hours. And I'm sure we'll enjoy our travel.

Going to Prague

Our decision to go to Prague came just out of the blue. First of all our close friends Khorobrykhs told us they were going to visit Prague for a week in the middle of February. They asked if we wanted to join them and we refused. We though winter was not a good time to go to Europe.

A week later I got a message from my old friend Vova living in Israel. He wrote he and his wife Natasha were going to Prague to celebrate Natasha's birthday there. So they asked if we wanted to go to Prague too and celebrate all our birthdays together. It needs to be said three of us have our birthdays very close. My wife Ann's birthday is on Februalry 7th, then goes mine on February 9th, then Natasha's on February 10th.

The idea to celebrate all our birthdays together was too good to be refused without thinking. Besides we did not have a chance to see Vova and Natasha for over 3 years. So we though we'd give it a try.

That's how it all happened. Then we called our travel agent, learned that we only had one day to make a decision or we would not have enough time to get Czech visas. Without much time for thinking the decision came fast. We should go.

So yesterday I already paid the money and gave our passports to the agent. We'll be in Prague from 7th to 11th of February. And yes, Khorobrykhs will be there too! They'll come 2 days later then we and stay a little longer. Still we all will have 3 days in Prague together and I am very much excited about it.

I do hope the weather is going to be fine.