Czech Me Out!

117 photos taken on Ken Gagne's camera while the WPI Men's Glee Club were on tour in the Czech Republic, March 5th to the 16th, 1999.

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A neat building in Prague

Planet Hollywood!

another neat building

the lunar clock tower

Nate McCarter before the clock tower

the castle at day

the courtyard

Ken at the courtyard's fountain

Jurg & Heather at a spire

the castle/cathedral

the castle/cathedral

a stained-glass window inside the church

"Look! Up in the sky!"

some gargoyles

a gate

clubbers descending down the stairs from the cathedral; Driscoll, Crawford, Wheeler, & Julie lead the way

water running alongside buildings, ala Venice!

a distance shot of the castle from across the river; a lonely lady watches

some buildings rising over the river through Ceske Krumlov

a crowd of clubbers gathers before a central monument; Chad, uninterested in the camera, peers off into the distance

the spire beneath which they stood

Chad is dumbfounded by the hangman's rope and axe found in our restaurant!

Ars Nova Furniture (don't ask)

seen through bars, a pair of mopey bears

a neat shot of Ceske Krumlov taken from higher up

another shot of the town, but framed interestingly

a road to nowhere in the garden above the town

LeBlanc & Jen Waite in the garden we weren't supposed to be in

the road leading up to the garden

a chapel

Gabe hijacks a Bohemian piano and serenades the lonely shopkeeper with "The One Challenge"

Gabe hijacks an ice-cream piano and tries to play

Ingalsbe & Haynes nap on the bus ride back from Ceske Krumlov

Louis & Co. enjoy a brief repast in Telc

"Smile! You're On Ingalsbe Camera!"

Gabe & Ingalsbe pose before the Telc town square

Haynes & Co. shopping for clothes; Ingalsbe, wearing his "deer-caught-in-headlights" look, has wandered into the shot

the center of Brno

a distance shot of the Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul in Brno

Rudy, Aaron, and Cattelle squeeze into the center of Europe

Andre pauses the tour group to give a speech; a brilliant yellow jacket looks on

a tower of the StP&P Cathedral

Tom Vogtman with a stone cross; Crawford ducks into the picture at the last second

Haynes peers down at me from above; "Trapped Deer" Ingalsbe returns

the front rise of the StP&P Cathedral

Aaron goes to the dogs

an angel inspects his rectum

where I laundered my casino winnings

Driscoll shows off his, uh, male member; dammit Ingalsbe!!

us at our second concert, in Brno

Dave Hamel; you can't see it, but somewhere behind him is a cave!

ah - the cave!

Stepmother Abyss

Stepfather Abyss

the Downy Man-1000 chases our train after leaving the caves

an unfocused shot of the Faull-1000

the women at our third concert, at the Kromeriz girls' school

the men at our third concert...

... and again...

... and again...

... and again...

... and the women join us!

the ladies serenade us at the party afterward

the ladies serenade us at the party afterward

the Kromeriz director holds his phone up to a never-before-seen SHM configuration, featuring Michael Driscollova!

still with the phone, SHM serenades an innocent bystander

SHM limbo! (still with the phone...)

Wheeler's SHM solo

Donnelly gives his first autograph; a jealous Bresson looks on

the Kromeriz girls singing Queen's "We Will Rock You"

chamber - ah, concert choir performs, with Mike Driscoll as alto and Tom Pfieffer as usher

Wheeler, Jurg, Driscoll, Haynes, and Cattelle serenade Heather

the barbershop quintet

an inebriated Driscoll entertains a bus-full of tired clubbers with his rendition of Mighty Mouse

the casino where I lost all my money (shut up!)

the Monument against War and Fascism in Vienna, Austria; it was bombed a year ago to the day we were there (March 12th)

the Monument plaque

eight Vienna-goers pose before a chandelier shop!

playing tag outside the Natural History Museum in Vienna

WPI is represented outside the museum

Jen sits forlornly outside the museum

Jen & Hamel perform cartwheels, much to Aaron's delight

Jurg - what a hunk!

a dinosaur skeleton watches over our silly clubbers

Aaron, Jurg, Heather, Collins, & Dave in front of another skeleton

a pyramid of skulls - but one's missing...

pinguin, dammit! PINGUIN!

having left the museum: the building across the way, w/statue

a stained-glass window in the St. Stephan Cathedral in the center of Vienna

bones beneath the cathedral, as far as the eye can see...

Jen poses with a statue as it gives Aaron rabbit ears

Niedermeyer (hey, he's my cousin)

Jurg & Heather in the opera house

having returned to Prague: the cemetary outside Terezin Small Fortress

a plaque

the cell where the initiator of World War I was held

a shower room

My Dinner With Ethan

Kzechup

a rowdy bunch poses at night with the Prague cathedral in the background

Jen, Faull, Pfieffer, Heather, and Brynn marching in formation

Chad reacts to one of my "tales out of high school" over lunch

the stairs leading up to the bridge - as seen in Mission: Impossible

same stairs, but now with Action Chad!

Looking up at Chad looking down from those same stairs

the lot at the bottom of the stairs; was it in the movie, too?

the club at our fourth and final concert, in Prague

SHM takes a bow

Julie & Terri, "Agnus Dei"

"I'm here to bust a groove..." whatever, Haynes

"Welcome aboard!" From his lawn chair Ping welcomes us to his boat

"Mmm, grain product!" Erik snarfs down some bread

"Hey, that's not a duck..." Driscoll looks out the window.

an off-center shot of the four conductors: Driscoll, Louis, Wheeler, & Julie

Ethan reacts to my telling of the "Downy Man" slip

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