Europe - Prague, Day 1

I'm slacking on the journal entries, so I've decided that I will go in and fill in the gaps later.

Yesterday we left Vienna and setteled into Prague for three nights. It was a crazy trip. The train was OK - until I realized no circulation was occuring in our car. It was hot enough as it was, so by then end of the four hour train ride I was convered in sweat. So it didn't help when Jen and I decided to walk from the train station to our hostel. We decided it would be too hard to find change in Czech money and it would be easier to walk. Two hours later we thought it was a bad idea.

First off, the train station was pretty well into the first tring suburbs. So it wasn't exactly a pleasent walk along busy highways. But we made it to the river - but crossing the river enabled difficult. We had to first cross under a creepy underpass to the other side of the road, then another underpass to the south side, then another underpass to the west side. It was like taking a four leaf clover - but as a pedestrain. I talked about how I stabbed several people the last time we were in an underpass so creepy people in the underpass wouldn't bother us. It worked.

When we emerged from the underpass and crossed teh river, we made our way down a road we thought the hostel was on. Twenty mintues later we secound guessed our decision. We asked some locals, but they had no idea where the road we were looking for was. So we began wondering random streets looking for a road on our map. No luck. By this time, Jen could barley walk (bad foot and a backpack twice her size). So I left her in a square while I checked out the entire block for a road. No luck. I finally stopped in a hotel and she finally gave me a map of the location of our hostel. We were a block away - the road name just changed three times. So we found our hostel.

Upon arrivial, it seemed like a cool place (even though we were really far from teh center). A New Zelander was sleeping in our room, and we all decided we were hungry. We went and ate at a pizza parlor in a basement somewhere. It was good. And cheap. Prague is cheap.

We got back to the hostel and I debated going out. So we took showers and hung out in the lobby to see what would happen. Instead of going out we played sheraids - of all things - with a Canadian, American, and French maybe? I dunno. It was fun. We talked to the Canadian afterwards. It was fun. But we went to bed.

That was day one. Prepare for day 2....