First full day in Prague. Jen and I began the day exploring the possiabilies of the metro. We walked to teh train station and bought a day pass. We then continued to the "Old City" which is the traditional walls encompassing the old city and the cathedral. However, the line to the cathedral was rediculously long. So we decended the hill and walked through the city. We basically did a walking tour of the west side of the river, which included all the government buildings and the embasseys. However, it wasn't very grand like most government areas would be considered. WE barley reconized the parlamont building when we walked by it. It was nestled in the tight, winding streets. We then continued through town and across the Charles Bridge. It was lined with bonze statues of different religious heros of the past. After getting across teh brige we arrived in the town center. It was a bustle of activity - tourist activity. So wse joined the tourist to watch an astronomical clock chime on the hour. Basically, all tweleve aposoles peeked out a window and overlooked the square. I dont think they were the real ones though. I cant tell for sure. It was far away. Anyway, at the end so trumpet statue blew a pathetic horn. It was rather humorous.
Anyway, we continued back to the Old Town because we figured that the lines would be shorter. We were correct. We bought tickets for the cathedral and took a quick look. By this time I was burnt out, hot, and ready to go back. But I perservered and saw the crypt and climbed 285 stairs to the tower. It was a great overlook to the city. Afterwards we headed to another building that I forgot the name of. I twas basically a place for people to gether in the medevil days. Gathering people are good. Before had we ran into Quiten and Wendy from the hostel who invited us to a concert that night. We thought it would be fun. After we were completey burnt out, we took the tube/bus to the hostel.
I got ready, and when Wedy got back she offered to make Jen, Venessa and I dinner. We thought we would let her. But we also volunteered to go get some stuff at the market. This attempt was pretty much a bust. Venessa and I went to the market but coulen't find carrots or garlic. So we decided that carrot soup and garlic soup powder would subsitute rather well. Fortunetly, we found some canned carrots, but the garlic powder would have to do. On the way back we say a fresh food market - of which we decided not to tell Wendy and Jen about. But later we went back to get some mushrooms.
After eating our pasta, Quiten arrived at our hostel. You see Quiten was pretty proud of himself because he found some amazing hostel the he swares is the best place he says. It was called Sophies hostel. In fact, Wendy was even going to cancel her nights at our hostel and move across town - except they were booked.
Anyway, the five of us continued to the town square to see this concert that we thought was free. Upon arrival in the square we discovered that the concert was not free and was instead in a church. We still attended, and it was prety fun. I'll blog later what they played. But it was pretty amazing just listening to it in the church. Afterwards we wanted to go out. That was until we heard the astrological clock chiming. No one else had seen the clock, so we dashed over to watch it. We missed the show. But we did find ice cream. We then began looking for a place to go out, until we found a McDonalds. Wendy had to use the bathroom, so we waited. Then we found some modern art sculpture made of toliet, facets, and what-not. It was by an American modern artists. We were proud. So we took a picture in front of it. After the picture, we discovered the clockw as going to chime again. So we made our way back to the square. There was a massive croud waiting the arrival of the disiples. This inlcuded two drunk frenchmen singing french drinking songs - which i did not know exsisted. The clock chimed. Everyone waited. But the desiples never appeared. Everyone was quite angry and disappointed. I feel we were cheated.
Oh well, we continued to go and drink. We searched long for a place. I had a map and had put some dots of places I read would be fun. We slowly wondered to the places, debating on other places en route. We finally found my dot, and nothing was there. So we continued to some music bar that wasn't serving that night. We finally found a coffee shop and had some drinks until they closed. It was fun.
We took a taxi back to the hostel and slept.
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