June 22-25, 2011
Ok, let’s do a huge recap of the last 4 days:
Wednesday: Adrienne and I went to the National Museum! It was so pretty inside and had a lot of interesting exhibits. My favorite was probably this art exhibition by this one photographer. His pictures were breath taking! We then walked around and headed to my favorite pastry place…oh so good. That night we headed to Neklid…this would be day number 4 in a row. One more day and we have the longest streak!
Thursday: What better way to start off the day than to go to…NEKLID! Day number 5. Heck yes. We did it. After that we headed to class where we turned in our papers and discussed Kundera. We watched part of a film and we were done! After class Adrienne and I headed back to the Pension so we could pack and head to the bus station…we were headed to Pilsen!
The bus ride was only an hour. We met up with Marek and his girlfriend Jane at the bus station. We head to mall while we waited for Tomas and Barbara to get there….and what do we do to kill time? GO BOWLING! And just for the record, I suck at bowling. I’m horrible. But that’s okay with me, it was fun. We then had to navigate the bus system to get to Marek’s home. Now this is weird…a house. We ate when we got there and watched TV. That was weird! But it was nice nonetheless.
Friday: We slept in a little Friday and took our time getting ready which was nice and we watched a little TV and just enjoyed the morning. We had to wait for the bus anyway. So we tried to catch the bus…literally ran to catch it…and we still missed it. So we walked around and saw the Patton statue. Tomas came back for us in his car and we were off to Pilsen. Our first stop was the church. It had the tallest tower in the Czech Republic. And yes, we climbed all 301 steps. I didn’t realize how much living on Stringfield 4th would help me while in Prague, but it did! The view was amazing…you could see the whole city. By the way, Pilsen is the third largest city in CZ. Tomas then wanted to go to the Puppet museum…bizarre place, that’s all I’ll say. By this point, it was around 3pm so we were all getting a little hungry. Marek took us to one of his favorite restaurants where we all got Czech food. Goulash! It was delicious! Then again, there hasn’t been much food I didn’t like while I was here. Marek’s car needed fixing so we headed to the mall and browsed the shop and the bookstore! I love a good bookstore even if I can’t understand Czech. The boys showed up and we went bowling again (Tomas really wanted to go). I once again did pretty bad, BUT I did get a few spares and a strike! A large group then came in that was really loud so we peaced out. Tomas and Barbara then had to leave (Barbara had to work in the morning) so we headed back to Marek’s house to chill for the rest of the night but not before stopping at BIG BURGER! It was delicious. That night, we watched some TV together and met Marek’s mom. She didn’t know much English but seemed really nice!
Saturday: After another lazy morning, Marek’s stepdad drove us into Pilsen. We went and bought our return tickets home and were off to see more of the city. We saw so many weddings! At least 4 different ones! I love weddings so that was fun to see! We saw the inside of the church which was so pretty and they still use it today! The Pilsen Underground was next. It was this network of tunnels that have been there since the Medieval period. There were at least 20 wells down there out of 300 in Pilsen. We had to wear hardhats which was pretty funny, I guess I should get used to it if I’m gonna be a civil engineer. The tunnels were pretty expansive and were used for safekeeping during wars/sieges, storage, sending messages, and getting water. It was about time to leave (our bus left at 3) when the tour was over so we grabbed a quick lunch and headed to the bus station.
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