so like good little girls we did manage to not go out on saturday
night. im pretty sure i slept like a log- something about 11hrs or so.
so worth it. we woke up the boys- nik danny and jesse because steve
decided it was too early and he couldn't make it- and we headed to the
walking tour in the center of prague. our tour guide was a super peppy
british girl named ruth aka root in czech. she shouted, hopped and
leaped around and the tour was quite good. we saw the famous
astrological clock, the male and female towers in the main square, saw
the jewish cemetary where ppl were buried 12 deep in places,
cathedrals where the virgin mary statue apparently came to life and
grabbed a theif's hand and they had to cut his arm off to get him out
(the arm which they now have mummified inside the church) among many
other things. there was also a really interesting story about how when
the germans invaded the czechs banded together and tore down all the
road signs as well as started calling every city the same name to
confuse troops. the germans did eventually find prague but it took
them almost a week due to being so lost. pretty ingenious.
it was absolutely freezing outside; it may have even flurried a bit.
jesse, danny's canadian friend, hadn't brought a coat and was
absolutely shivering his life away. i cant believe he survived haha.
after the tour the boys went back to the hostel to warm up and use the
sauna while we shopped around a little more and got some good gifts!
melanie even finally found her dream jacket which she was pumped
about. we headed back to the tram being sure to buy tickets-
apparently the czech police are super hardcore about "czech"ing for
them and they are NOT lookers like our foxy ones from greece.
we changed and headed out to dinner with the whole crew of me mel
danny steve jesse and nik. we ate in this really cute local restaurant
which was a closed in garage and they gave us ikea blankets to keep
warm if we needed it. mel had some delish pizza (with vinegar of
course) and i tried traditional goulash which was super good. the
group of us went out to a couple pubs and got drinks and around 10pm
danny and jesse took off for their 12am-5am bus to berlin. we weren't
too sad because we are staying with them in the circus hostel once we
arrive there as well :) we met up with trent and did a bit of pub
hopping resulting in a great night. at one point i convinced a group
of guys that i was czech but i spoke fluent english with a british
accent. idk how this worked out because my accent is way dodgey. the
best part was that the one guy said, "oh wow, youre the second czech
girl i met who speaks british english" hahah what a wanker.
bedtime then it was. the next morning nik and us headed to the bone
church which was about a hour train ride away. despite the amazing
hairdos mel and i sported (ill tell a quick story about that at the
end) and the compartment in the train a man tried to suffocate us out
of with phx style heating we made it to kunta mora. the church was
really eerie covered in parts of human bodies that had been exhumed
when the plagued killed more people then there was graveyard space
for. they took out about 40,000 old bodies and a blind monk put them
in his church. they are now in pyramids, giant chalices, wall
decorations all using bits and pieces of the skeleton. a huge
chandelier was a focus point because it contained at least 1 of each
bone of the entire body. the jaw bone linked decor was a bit much so
after disturbing ourselves enough we headed home.
we had planned to meet steve and trent for a opera at 7 but the only
thing playing on a monday was an orchestra concert. steve and his
friend had to go to a work meeting for the hard rock and the rest of
us manned up for the main event. the performers were a quartet quite amazing. nik thinks he might have even seen melanie cry. its was super quiet during the songs so you could hear a pin drop- but then as soon as there was a break it was a hacking cough fest. funny to listen to because we did not know what to expect. i asked melanie if another band was coming on which she cracked up about. she knew what i meant, whatever. we asked an old man to take our picture as we left (at what mightve been intermission, we couldn't read the pamphlet) and we think it mightve been the first digital camera he had ever seen. he put his face against the screen and couldn't find the button to make it work. it was quite interesting but it turned out to be a good shot. we stopped at trents favorite bar by his hostel called P.U.B. where there are taps at each table and it keeps track of how many liters you drink so you don't need to go to the bar at all. it was a really cool place-melanie thinks rudy should open one in the states :)
we were tired and headed back to get some stuff put together for our last night before we leave for berlin tomorrow. we are being extra cautious about our stuff because trent told us how a man followed him into his hostel room and he thought it was a new roommate. he left and went to get food and when he got back the man had drilled out all the locks from the lockers, gone through everyones stuff and stole his one roommates entire bag. he was really lucky and all his stuff was in random pockets that the theif didn't get to but still...scary for sure.
we are planning on doing our own little castle tour tomorrow morning and then grabbing postcards, lunch take away and picking up the beer crawl tshirts we still have yet to get. nik might be joining us on this stuff and our train to berlin. we enjoy our girl travel time but always nice to have one more i suppose. as for our scary hair this morning, mel and i were talking about how gross it is traveling in europe. our standards for "clean" have drastically dropped. we counted and with only 2 laundry trip and a running total of 9-11 showers for the whole trip so far we are definitely dirty girls. cant say how much i appreciate a house with your own shower...that doesn't flood (the one here does), has hot water, isn't dirty and isn't shared by 1million other dirty travelers.
we are excited that arizona football is doing so well and hope everyone had a crazy homecoming- we saw some pictures that looked like a good time. we will be there to throw down next year. the eagles lost to the cowboys who are terrible which is lame but i guess the phillies being in the world series ill take what i can get. going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall tomorrow since the official day was yesterday. the boys have almost our same travel plans (ending in london though) so we may never get rid of them ;) new roomie tonight...45yr old welsh man...has a mullet and a stutter. excellent.
miss you all and love from prague
Karin
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The Bone Castle sounds really cool!! Enjoy the 20th anniversary parties in Berlin!
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