Prague, Czech Republic

Last weekend, a group of 9 people(including myself) went to Prague for the weekend. We all took an overnight train from Cologne, Germany to Prague, Czech Republic! The people who went were Kathy(it was her birthday weekend!), Chelsey, Teaghan, Jeff, Alli, Saif, John, Martin, & I. We booked a 9 person apartment deep in the city of Prague(speaking of, this is a HUGE city. I had no idea beforehand). On the train ride over there, Teaghan and I went to go sit in John's compartment to hang out and pass time on this 10 hour train ride. In his compartment were the most random people ever, haha. It was us 3, a super old lady, and middle aged Iranian man. You could say the theme of the entire trip was caricatures and it started in this compartment when John began drawing everyone. It ended up with the Iranian guy claiming to be an artist and "attempting" to draw me. 

I'm on the right. Splitting image right? ;)

We got to Prague around 9 that morning and then went to go exchanged our Euros for Crowns! One Euro equals 25 Crowns so things got crazy real fast... For example, a 10 Euro meal for dinner would end up costing 250 Crowns! We basically had no concept of money during the trip so things got weird. We ended up catching a taxi from the train station to our apartment because the Czech language is nothing like the other european languages we've encountered. Usually the words are similar enough that you can semi figure out what you're doing...not here! Once we got dropped off, we realized we didn't have the address of our apartment from the AirBnB lady. We booked from AirBnB, which is a super cool website that allows people to rent out their personal apartments. After going to a restaurant around the corner and using their wifi, we were eventually able to figure it out. Crisis adverted :)

Later that day a group of us hit up the "Old Town" area of Prague. It was jam packed full of people but that didn't take away from the beauty of Prague! 

The weather wasn't that great that day so we eventually made our way to a mall. It was the first mall I've been in to within the past three months so that was pretty exciting! Yay civilization :)))

Unfortunately for all of this trip I was pretty sick. I didn't get to do as much as I wanted and I was pretty bummed that the first time I've gotten sick in a looooong time was in this beautiful city! A lot of the trip was a blur. Later that night a group of people went out to the bars and clubs. I stayed in because I was basically dying. Not really but really. The following day, Teaghan and I woke up early and went to explore the city. We ended up going to the main palace(which is up on a hill overlooking the city), St. Charles's Bridge, and the Salvador Dali exhibition. Okay, I'm just going to start throwing up pics because I seriously barely remember details of this day.

Castle!

View from the city from the palace(iPhone quality, oops)

view from St. Charle's Bridge

Dali obsessed

(btw, we got in free because the lady working was mysteriously gone. life was good).

the famous astronomical clock tower

and finally, the fanciest grocery store I ever did see.

Oh, and I decided I wanted to go to the Hard Rock Cafe soooo I plugged the address in the gps on my phone right? wrong. It led us like 30 minutes outside of the city to the sketchiest of sketch place. but...

WE SURVIVED! 

That night, we went to this club that was 4-5 stories deep and each floor was a theme: R&B/Hip Hop, Oldies, Current music, Bar&Lounge, &Dubstep. It was cool and super european. Oh and packed. 

The next day we all took the train back to Germany at 6 that night. To kill time we attempted to do homework/went shopping instead. I also found a pharmacy and got drugged up on pills to bring me back to life. Right now I'm currently in Florence, Italy for Easter! I'll update the blog about my italian adventures lataaaaa. Till then, Happy Easter everyone!:) 

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverancethe race marked out for us.