Tuesday July 24, 2007

Last night in the middle of our sleeping I was woken up by Tasha to close the complicated windows because it had started raining on us. We were on the top floor and the windows were above us rather than on the side of the wall so they were a bit complicated. While closing the windows there was a spider that had been hanging off one of the windows so as I closed it the spider went flying somewhere in the room but I chose not to say anything to Tasha until after we had checked out for the day. That was a bad idea, but better in the end because she got some sleep. After waking up we got dressed and went down to the pub to eat breakfast, which was really delicious, and all you can eat. While eating our breakfast we met this girl from Australia and chatted with her as we enjoyed our breakfast. On our way to see the Old Town we spotted a Bazaar so at the last minute we jumped off the Tram and started wandering around looking at all the black market goods. I ended up bargaining for a sweatshirt and got it for 250 CZK, which is only $12 USD. That is a really good deal for it because it is really good quality. I also bargained for a small suitcase for Tasha that ended up costing us 250CZK instead of the 800CZK the lady wanted for it. After we were done at the market we went to the famous post office for stamps and to take pictures. We started to wander through Old Town after the post office and stumbled upon the Powder gate, several neat statues, a Museum, and the Big Clock, which was actually kind of small. We stopped for ice cream at this café by the clock because we saw a sample of what it looked like as we walked by and were mesmerized by how good it looked. On the hour we were able to watch the clock dance. We found a bakery to stop in for lunch where we ate panini’s. We grabbed some pastries for dinner on the train before heading to the hostel to collect our bags for the train station. At the train station there were quite a few different people hanging around that made us feel a bit uncomfortable, but its ok because we had each other. Our train ended up being a 6 person room only for 4 people which we found strange and a bit cramped but we made the best of it and got some rest.