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London

Turkey Day

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Mark’s mom and cousin checked out our neighborhood last night….love the lights and sounds….Mark’s mom thought it looked like Times Square….

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Mark went out with family to the store and found turkeys….we will have turkey for Thanksgiving….

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Cheers!

Prague

Last Day in Prague

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Mommy decided to let me sleep in with Hello Kitty on Monday. We had our own Hello Kitty room inside Sara’s flat – it looks like a suitcase. It was cozy. Mommy said something about people at work not understanding a woman her age toting a bear like Louie around…..that sounded funnny.

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Mommy learned about the Velvet Revolution. This year marks the 15th anniversary. Something about rebelling against Communism.

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On Monday – Mommy and Markie and Sara make it to Prague Castle…finally.
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Prague

dobre den!

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Prague was lovely. I miss Sara. I wish we could go back….we followed the legend’s instructions…we should be back someday.

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We took Louie with us to Prague…met up with our Medill buddy Sara and she let us stay in here flat.

We figured Louie would be better adapted to the cold weather…in the 30s….and it snowed on Sunday and Monday. Louie’s from St. Louis and he grew-up with penguins…he knows about cold weather…

Here’s his story….
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Prague

Some highlights from the Czech Republic

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Just got back from Prague around midnight last night….It was beautiful, old-looking and cold. It was 50 degrees at London’s Stansted Airport….that felt like a heatwave…

I miss Prague.

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Louie has an adventure and meets a new friend…

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Hanging with Sara and drinking cheap beer…ok Mark and I drank the beer…Sara had diet coke…or something.

And I have more pix to post…later.

London Random Thoughts

working on a story…

for somebody…doing a freelancer type of thing.

I found a few Americans in this crowd of Mac lovers….queueing for the new Apple store opening tomorrow….

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So, I interviewed the Americans and pitched to the Medill News Service….I may be able to get a byline out of this European experience.

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These American chaps have been here since yesterday. Hardcore Mac lovers, yah?

London

More interesting things from work…

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I got a kick out of watching this story from the Philippines – they now have a fast food restaurant that serves only spam dishes….yummy. I hope you can have a side order of rice.

Arafat was buried today ….our newsroom carried the videos live fore several stations – from CNN to Sky News.

My producer top-lined me and said I should drop what I was doing in the edit bays…

I ended up in the middle of the newsroom – surrounded by the sounds and images of grieving and chaos in Ramallah. it was incredible.
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