Czech it out

Hello Hello Hello!
Again, so sorry for the blogging delay! I am finally prepared to blog about my trip to Prague (nice rhyme, right?) Anyway, the Prague trip was organized through my school so it was a really nice opportunity to spend time with my class mates. Friday morning, we all boarded the bus at 7 am and headed out to Czech. After a nice 8 hour bus ride, we rolled into Prague and unloaded into our cute little hotel. Myself and some other friends decided to wander around the city, since we had "free time" for the evening. We walked to the Jewish district, down the shopping street, and down to where the Astronomical Clock Tower is. This was my favorite part of Prague, albeit the most touristy. This part of the town looks just like a fairy tale, tons of tall colorful buildings, castles off in the distance, cobble stone, bridges, and a huge clock that marks the middle of the town, it was so adorable! We walked around a bit more, but thanks to the lovely 20 degree weather, 4 hours of wanderings had left us all frozen. We stopped at a "Mediterranean/ Czech" restaurant and ate some delicious food and ordered hot rum, which is rum, water, lemon and honey! It was a nice way to warm up. We headed back to our hotel and Lily and I (my roommate in Budapest and in the hotel) ended the day by watching some nice music videos that they play here on MTV and VH1 that have not been played in America since the 1980s, such as The Village People's "In the Navy", such a classic. The next morning we woke up early, and headed out with the group on a guided tour. We took the tram up to the Prague Castle. Again, it is more like a fairy tale than anything I have ever seen before. Castles, motes, guards, and beautiful views. We all took turns being photographed with the guards...which I'm sure they loved and walked back down from the castle, over the bridge, and down to the clock again. After our tour was over, our guide led us to a typical Czech restaurant, where I ordered some roasted pork and cabbage (when in Prague). After lunch we walked back to the clock town and ordered this donuts type things that are basically dough they wrap around metal columns and roast over hot coals and cover in toppings such as cinnamon/sugar or chocolate...they are so good! After I walked around with my friend's Emily and Leah and looked in all the touristy shops, bought a Prague Starbucks mug, got lost for an hour or so, and eventually made it back to our hotel. We took a little Disco nap (this I have discovered is a wonderful thing where you nap, for as long as you want, and then go out to disco! So great). After our disco nap, we headed out to a bar, but unfortunately it was closing as were all the bars around it so we got delicious Gyros, which are a staple for the late night crowd in all of Europe. We went home, passed out and boarded the bus early in the morning and headed home. It was a great trip, if anything I have a stronger desire to go back because of how short, but great, our trip was :)



The yummy doughnut things!