Friday, December 24th, 2005

Merry Christmas from Shannon Merry Christmas everyone! Have lots of presents, love and happiness!

Today I have one fairly funny story to tell which happened to me 2 days ago. Christmas in Czech Republic is celebrated by having a Christmas fish for dinner on the 24th. I am Czech so I had to go to get this fish as well. Normally, I have no problems going to the fish store. I go in, get what I need and leave. This time it was little bit different.

I walked in, waiting in line and finally made my order. As I am waiting for the fishes, I realized that there are many people of other nationalities standing around me. Suddenly, I saw sea snake, octopus and all these other scary animals being carried by sellers only few inches from me. I started shivering. I really didn't like that.

Few years back I was in Caribbean where I experienced swimming with sting rays. I had almost a panic attack back then when they started touching me all over during my swim. I suppose this experience was so strong that when I was standing in this store, flash backs were coming back to me. I was out of the store very quickly. I was a winner over all, I managed to get my fishes.

Here is a photo "Merry Christmas from Shannon" which I took when my friend Shannon came over one night. We don't know the name of the dog because he just happened to appear out of nowhere.

Merry Christmas