Friday October 27

Today we went to the International Baptist Seminary to take some flyers, and had lunch at the restaurant there. They also have a hotel and child care center. I ordered sea bass, which is delicious, for 182 KZ ($9). The cook brought out a mound of sea salt and began pounding on it with a mallet until the fish appeared from under the mound. Then he took a soup spoon and knife, and skinned and filleted it and gave me the meat, which was excellent. Then I got the bill for 650 KZ ($31). We had read in The Prague Post about all the price gouging used on foreigners, so I questioned him. He showed me that the menu states 182 KZ for 100 grams, and this fish was over 300 grams. Live and learn. Next time we will write down what we order and how much we are willing to pay, and show it to the waiter. The bill is in Czech, so we do not always know what the items are. They write their numbers differently, so we can't figure out what numbers they have written down. Then we need to be able to convert from Crowns (KZ) to dollars. And finally, they add things like the cost of salt, pepper, bread, water, etc. Anyhow, the sea bass was great, and maybe we will serve it to you the way it was served to us (without the bill)!!