Monday, November 24, 2008

Prague, Czech Republic






SORRRY its taken me soo long to do this, things have been crazy busy! but anyway Prague was an amazing city, i LOVED it! one of my favorite places i have been!  i went with Max, Christen, Mikaela (my roommate), and Joe.  we first headed to our hostel which was pretty nice, nothing too exciting but we had an apartment style room for only 12 euros a night, it was nice for everyone to be in the same room. so we got there in the evening, so we headed to dinner after dropping our stuff off, the ride from the airport to the hostel got us all excited to see the city. we went to a place called Larry Fary, which max's dad had recommended. we got there and it wasn't like he had told us, he had said it was an underground restaurant and it had good cheap steaks. well we were definitely not underground and it looked more like a sushi restaurant. so we sat down anyway and well the prices kinda blew us away so we stuck to the menu of the day; which turned out to not be that great. we ended up asking about the underground misunderstanding and they said, yes we do have an underground part to the restaurant...so it all made sense we just didn't know what we were doing. but when we called cam to tell him our mess up, he made us go back the next night! after dinner we headed to meet up with brennan and monica who ironically were in Prague the same weekend on a school planned trip. so we met up with them at this bar that had bud on tap and it was really amazing! prague is known for there beer which i really wanted to experience but i didnt have in mind bud, but it was still good. i was looking forward to trying their beer, pilsner. we had a beer with them and their whole group and then they were heading to a club; we were all exhausted from going out the night before so we decided to head to bed and meet up with them again the next day.  the next day we got up and headed to check out the main part of the city. we went to the main square, kinda just walked around. we had so much fun! we took a bus tour which was great to see the whole city and really get orientated. it would have been better to do a walking tour but it was raining. after the bus tour we needed to do some shopping, max's bag had never come through to madrid, it was currently lost somewhere and we didn't have a clue where cause he took delta and delta doesn't have a tracking system for their bags (DONT EVER take delta!). so he had been switching between two shirts and a pair of pants, so we decided to buy him at least two more shirts so he wouldn't start to smell, being that he had been in madrid before this for a couple days wearing the same clothes. haha! so we found a surf shop for him and me and him went in there to get stuff while the other checked out around that area. max was happy to have a new outfit to wear. after we headed to the hostel to shower and head to dinner at the same place. this time we made a reservation downstairs. as they brought us downstairs immediately the mood of the entire restaurant changed! we saw this couple next to us order these huge kebabs and we knew thats what we wanted! we ordered two bottles of wine to go with too! and then three...and then four...and then five! we were having a good time! the kebabs were absolutely amazing!!!!! sooo good!!!! brennan met us at the restaurant as we were just paying the bill, cause we had been there for 3 hours im sure! she then brought us to the club they had gone to the night before. i was a little unsure being the big clubber that i am....but we had a good time there. i think overall the best part was partying with bren and monica and max! it was like a little piece of home! the next day we got up early and headed to the castle which is literally a city. its surrounded by a huge wall with a whole lot of stuff inside, a cathedral, a temple, a government building a whole bunch of buildings. on the way there we walked across the famous charles bridge which was really neat and had a great view of the castle. the castle wasn't very impressive. there was a lot of stuff but most required entrance fees and nygil had told me that there was nothing in there worth paying for, so i kinda knew what to expect but was still a little let down. but this was literally the only thing that wasn't that great in prague everything else i loved!!!! we grabbed lunch at this little pub as we headed back to grab a view souvenirs before we had to catch our van back to the airport. we had such a great time here, none of us wanted to leave!!!!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

just pictures






ive come to understand that there are some people who are wanting updates with photos, so here are some pictures for those who are interested... these are pictures from halloween night, we had quite a good time if you couldn't tell.  LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! miss you!