So today's my last whole day in Prague, Wednesday June 22, 2o11. We woke up and got around and ate some breakfast. It started raining so we sought shelter for a bit, but that was ok. Then we went over to the Castle district and saw the Prague Castle and the St. Vitus Cathedral, which was soooo ridiculous and had so many stained glass windows. There is one special one inside, but I don't know for sure which one it was. There were also relics and graves in the church, which I find creepy, but I guess it's an ancient Catholic thing..."it's not wrong, it's just different..." lol. Anyway then we went to the Old Royal Palace and it had a jousting area inside...yeah crazy stuff. They even had a special stairway to get the horses and riders into the area lol! Then there was the defenstration window (the big church vs. state thing again and the people chunked the Catholic people out of this window and they died, all except 3 bc they landed in horse manure, but died a few days later bc they were tortured.) I forgot the name of the group that was fanatical and threw people out of the windows, but they still exist here today (roughly 300ish). And then we went to the St. George Basilica and it was deceiving because the outside seemed neo-gothic, but inside it was romanesque (my personal fave). The had redone the outside for whatever reason. But interestingly, the ceiling was not made out of curved stones because they didn't have that technology yet when they built this church, so it's made out of wood, which is verrrrrry rare :). Then I got a pic of some of the relics of a girl from a nearby town that were all in this little ornate case on the way out. I don't know why they were there or what importance they hold, but the skull was very intact and you could see the fissure lines and right up front was a beautiful fibula bone (sorry I'm a freak :/). Anyway then we left the castle and tried to mess with the guards again. We found a newby because when Anna leaned in and was pointing he flinched and straight up turned sideways which he shouldn't have done. HAHA! Then after that we walked down the hill and got some food - I had my first kabob and it was pretty good even though he put yogurt sauce on it even though I said no :(. Then we went to the Lennon wall and signed it and took tons of pics. I tried to go in the little museum/gift shop, but it wasn't open...bummer. Then we went back to watch the astronomical clock go off and see the rooster crow and all the little men going around and the skeleton pulling the chain and the man upstairs blowing the trumpet - very cool.
Oh I forgot to tell you that we saw the Dancing House last night. We didn't have our cameras ready though :( Plus it was too dark anyway. There's nothing to do there, but it's some crazy architecture.
Now we're taking a break because we've walked probably 5 miles and we're all gone so we got some water and are cooling off back at the hostel. I don't know if we'll go out to the Commy Museum or not, it depends on when everybody's feeling like they're not going to have a heat stroke :( and how far away it is. I would like to go, but on the tour we got soooo much info about the Communism and how it affected the country and revolts and the Jewish community and how the people here fought back and took back Prague from the Nazis all by themselves bc Russia was taking their sweet time coming to their aide and the Western world "wasn't responsible" for helping Czeckoslovakia. They fought them off for 5 days and cut off their water and then they made a truce and they let the Germans go across the bridge free and they could keep their city! How cool is that?!
I don't know what the rest of the day consists of besides more food and possibly more walking, but my knee is once again acting up so I'm probably about to take some medicine and a nap lol. Tomorrow our train back to Florence leaves at about 5 am. We either have 3 trains or 4, but we don't know for sure yet. Fun times!
Love you all - 37 days til I'm home! :D
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