Prague!!!

Day ONE:

We left for Prague at eight in the morning on Saturday and arrived at about noon. I slept almost the whole way, and every time I tried to study or stay awake it was a failed mission. When we got off the bus we had six hours to explore the city. We walked across the Charles bridge, named after Charles the fourth and went into the old town square in the historic part of the city. On the way we passed alot of very exspensive stores such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Lacoste and many more which I had never even seen with my own eyes. I was scary because I didnt want to even get too close to the stores because of how much things cost there. Haha When we came to the square Daniel, who is Lipscombs travel agent said we had 15 mins to go to the restroom and exchange euros for czech krowns, at that moment was when I realized I had forgotten my wallet with my debit card. Leah got extra money out for me on her card and I ended up paying her back in euros. As Leah and I got done with the long line for the money exchange and debit machine, we turned to walk back to the meeting place. Once we realized we were all alone and our group had left us, we started to freak alittle. I decided we would just wonder around and we what we could see and not worry about the group. We saw soo much! We walk for a good hour and a half before stopping for lunch. We went to a little caffe that had amazing food, Mom we had wonderful Quiche and mozzarella n tomato salad and a mini pizza to split. Then later we got dessert, a chocolate eclaire and chocolate mouse! We were soo full than we didnt eat dinner and the meal was pretty cheap because we had walked so far away from tourists. After lunch we walked past a mall that had lots of little shops inside, and I got Addison's christmas gift! A handmade and paint zebra and giraffe! They were exspensive but worth it, about 20 US dollars. Then later walking around I found a Patagonia store, which is an outdoors store similar to Columbia or Northface. But this store was better and special because it was an outlet store, I got a really nice jacket that would have originally been 150 US dollars for about 40 US dollars :) that was a good day! After that, we stubbled upon a church that just looked like any other old church but then when we went inside we realized we were in the Church of St. James the Greater, which is actually a Basillica, not that I know the different. But I did read that the new pope was there just a month before. I got some great pictures. Leah and I began walking again at about five with two hours left till we had to meet up with the group. We came up on a huge group of crazy loud youger people dressed in scary customs, and yes I was pretty scaried of them haha, there were police and people everywhere and loud music everywhere. We asked a cop as we acrossed the street what was going on and we came to find out that I was a carnival of anarchists and squatters. They were drinking out on the street as they were following a parade of huge decorated van with tons of different rock and inappropreiate music. They were yelling horrible things aloud and were dressed in rediculous clothing making fun of the government. They all were huge hibbies with long hair and tiedied clothes. The cops said they were doing this jsut to show that they were free to show their oppinion and get attention. It was like a huge party that was just full of loud nosense noise and scary drugged up people, and they were also dressed with as little clothes as possible. Leah and I watched for a while then continued walking back towards Charles bridge. On the way we saw a modeling shoot going on right in the middle of the crazy people, it was the real deal. I felt like I was watching a runaway show but in real life! Once we met up with the group, we got back on the bus and headed to the hotel where we just all hungout in the lobby until bed time. The next day, Sunday, we took a tour! I will write about that one tom night! love you all.