A Global Compilation

My time here is winding down!  I can’t believe I am less than two days away from being back in the states again after all this time.  Of all the traveling I have done this summer, I am glad that Prague is where we’ve spent the most time.  Earlier this week I visited the Prague Castle.  More like the Prague Village.  The castle was huge and surrounded by cathedrals, small living spaces, and a lot of pretty buildings in which I have no clue what purpose they served… but they were pretty.  The castle was on top of a hill that allowed you to overlook the entire city, and since all of Prague is beautiful, the view was incredible.

On a separate journey, I also went to the observation tower that was built to model the Eifel Tower.  The tower was built on a hill even higher than the one the castle was built on… so we of course took a tram up it.  We climbed all 300 steps to the top and I took about million pictures of the view.  From the top you could see for miles- it was awesome.  After trekking back down the tower (not as exciting as going up it, though easier on your calves) we went to the “maze of mirrors” and the Rose Garden.  We also saw the “Hunger Wall” which was built to keep Mongol invaders from pouring in over the hill and attacking.

Apart from sightseeing, I have been keeping myself busy :-).  On Tuesday night we went to a bar with taps at the table.  We drafted teams, set up tables side by side and competed against each other as to who could consume the most beer in 25 minutes.  My team lost.  Still bitter about it seeing as I was the one who wrote the poem in the facebook invitation and reserved the tables.  On Thursday we got together and played against the Czech U-19 National Team.  We won the game and were thanked afterwards with a box of Czech cookies... which one of our players assuredly dropped all over the turf during high fives.  We still ate them... our Global Peasantry has turned the 5-minute rule into a 3-day rule.  

We did another pub crawl on Friday night—this one started with us befriending a group of Brits out for a bachelorette party and ended at the 5-story club, which we have been frequenting lately.  We went to the 5-story again on Saturday…. 5-Story of my life. 

On Sunday morning we all boarded a bus… a short bus again, obviously, and headed to Cesky Krumlov.  Cesky Krumlov is a small village about 3 hours from Prague and is the cutest place I’ve ever been to.  We had to split into 5 different hotels because there isn’t one that was big enough to accommodate all of  us.  My hotel was from the 14^th century and filled with old antiques.  Everything from the bed to the room key was legit old school.  On Monday, before we left, 5 of us rented a raft and went rafting down the river that circles the town.  We weren’t good at it, but every now and then there is a drop that you have to go down…. So basically we were at a water park.  I sat at the front of the raft and was El Capitan, naturally.

Well, now it’s Tuesday morning and I am packing for the States.  It’s weird to leave my new home away from home.