Weekend 4

Friday we got up and went to the natural history museum. The tour guide was great, I was barely every bored. There was a huge animal exhibit that we toured through, seriously every animal imaginable was in there. I mean they were dead and stuffed but it was cool nonetheless. There was one room that just full of all sorts of beetles, I never knew they were no neat! There are millions of them and they’re mostly deep gem colors with loads of different patterns and iridescence, it’s weird to say but dang beetles are pretty. After that our free weekend started and we caught a train to Prague in the Czech Republic!! We made it to our hostel, the Old Prague Hostel and had a room to ourselves! An unexpected luxury! We ended up just chilling in the room for the rest of the evening. The money situation is interesting, 16 Crones are about 1 US Dollar and 23 Crones are about 1 Euro, I’m just going to translate them into Euros when I shop to feel better about my spending =] Saturday we woke up with absolutely no plan as to what we were going to do- it was awesome. After so much tight scheduling during the week it was nice to have time to just move slowly and do whatever. Our hostel turned out to be really close to town so we just walked! It was raining, it would stay raining all day. First we walked to the famous clock tower in time to see it chime on the hour, and then we walked to the bridge which I have always remembered from when I was younger as one of the prettiest sights I’d ever seen. It was still pretty, but the rain made it look abandoned because everyone seemed to be hurriedly scurrying over it where before it had always looked so lively with crowds and sales people and artists enjoying its beauty. Once we got over the bridge we were cold and wet and found refuge in a Starbucks and camped out in there for a while hoping the rain would let up. It didn’t. We finally got up enough nerve to venture outside again and made it about five minutes before ducking into the nearest restaurant for lunch. Afterward we spent a lot of time meandering along the streets and souvenir shopping, I bought a scarf! That night we went out and saw a live dubstep DJ who was insanely good. Sunday we slept in and then went on a free walking tour of Prague, well a free tour where tips are greatly accepted =]. But the guide ended up being hilarious and really interesting. We learned the famous solar clock tower isn’t really good for much because the science behind it is flawed. We went in an old church where some guy had tried to steal a crown or something a long time ago and was caught and his hand was cut off as a punishment and it still hanging in the church. We also passed the Jewish cemetery but didn’t get to go inside. We ate dinner at a local bakery- I’m going to miss those so much!