Prague

Unfortunately, Spring Break started off a little rocky. Briann and I missed our flight to Prague on Wednesday and ended up sleeping at the airport to take the 6:30 flight out on Thursday. Needless to say, we were not happy campers when we got to Prague. We didn't miss much though because one of the girls that we were meeting there was sick and so they didn't do much other than sleep before we met them.

After a short nap and a shower, we were ready to hit the town! We headed out in search of food to the old town, and ended up stumbling on the Easter Market! We sat down at a traditional Czech restaurant for lunch, and then explored the market, watched some bandstand performances, and had some desserts. Four of us headed back to the hostel early because we were all very tired, and ended up watching Indiana Jones in the lounge at the hostel, while the other two went on a pub crawl.

The next day, we took a tour of Prague that lasted a good part of the day and covered everything. We started in Bohemia, then saw old town again, followed by the Jewish quarter, and headed across the bridge to see the John Lennon wall and Prague castle. The tour ended there and a few of us decided to revisit the John Lennon wall while the others sat by the river. We did a little shopping, and then when we met up with the rest, Shana had gotten a sort of deal to see Don Giovanni at the child's price and was looking for people to come with her... It ended up being a marionette opera, which was awful, but slightly hilarious.

Upon getting back to the hostel, we decided to set up Matt's computer in the kitchen/dining room area and watch a movie, but we were a little hungry, so half of us went in search of anything that would be open late at night. We eventually found a very random pastry shop that was open and pretty much bought one of everything they had. Although the movie Eurotrip was playing in the background, none of us watched it because a group of guys at the hostel joined us and we all talked and ate 7 different kinds of pastry until ridiculously late, but it was fun!

We left for Vienna the next morning, and we were all very sad to go. The consensus was that Prague was an absolutely beautiful, fantastic city, and is definitely near the top of my list so far. I'm trying to figure out if I can just work for 6 months in the states and then live the rest of the year there... I probably could because it's really cheap and the exchange rate is amazing, about 20 koruna to a dollar.

I'll update with a slideshow later, but I don't have time to upload pictures right now.

Miss you all!

-Kendyl