Later we checked into our hostel. This was one of the better moments of the trip. The 7 of us were split between two rooms. 5 people in our group had a bed in a 6 bed room with a random stranger (who turned out to be really nice…his name was Chris. I think Chris thought we were crazy when we sat in our room writing in our journals when the rest of the hostel’s population was headed to party until 6 am or later). That situation left two of us in another room with 8 random strangers. We decided to put the one boy with one girl in that room so she felt safer in that room. That girl was me. Will was the boy. He was the only boy with us….so he got the job by default. So, Will and I hauled our backpacks into our room. Sadly, there were no bunks left. We explained our situation to the front desk person. He graciously offered to upgrade us for the night. Not believing our luck we follwed him to the new room. He unlocked our door and we stepped into the honeymoon suite of all suites – in hostels that is. The two single beds (from IKEA) where pushed together to form one bed. For me. And Will. Together. The windows had lovely red curtains (from IKEA) and the walls were adorned with red rose pictures (from IKEA). Other than the overwhelming IKEA motif….the romanic nature of the room was sublime. We thanked the man and he left. We proceeded to get a good laugh about it. We even had matching sleeping bags. It made for many good pictures and vidoes. Eventually it got late and the reality of the situation set in. I had to break the news to Will that waking up to him next to me would just be a little too weird so I was kicking him out. He took it graciously and Krystle came and slept in with me instead. So, I almost slept with a man in Prague. Almost.
I’m excited to visit Prague again at the end of the summer with my family. The group didn’t get to visit as much of the Jewish quarter as I wanted to. The Jewish quarter in Prauge is amazing and it’s even more amazing that is wasn’t destroyed while occupied by the Nazis in WWII. Aparently, Hitler ordered that it be preserved as a place people could see reminants of an extinct race. It’s sad this was even the case, but good at the same time because the cemetary there has between 30,000 and 100,000 graves in it with thousands of gravestones and the two oldest working synagogs in the world.
Now enough history.
A few things I learned in Prague:
- Showering is not always an option. Our hostel was clean but the door didn’t lock and some showers don’t have a curtain. So you can risk being exposed to the world or just go dirty for a few days.
- Plan on there being A LOT of drunk people hanging around
- You will be invited to go bar hopping at least 10 times a night
- People think you are weird. We don’t drink. It comes with the territory.
- Owlcity plays EVERYWHERE. I can’t get away from them.´
- Starbucks is the only place in town that will take Euros. They also have amazing apple fritters.
- Expect rain. And when it rains it doesn’t stop. All day.
- Waiters are extremely rude. Especially if you ask for free tap water and you don’t order alcohol.
- I‘m capable of backpacking in Europe. I lived out of my book bag all weekend and carried it with me most of the time. This is one of my more amazing accomplishments in my life so far.
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