HI ROMANIA

HI. Okay so the third stop on our trip was PRAGUE, Czech Republic. Let me tell you, Prague is amazing. If you ever have the chance to go, TAKE IT. You will not be disappointed. To be honest, I didn't really think about Prague being all that cool until we started researching it before we went on our trip, and now I can definitely say it's one of my favorite places I've ever been. Also, it was significantly cooler in Prague, which made the whole experience ten times better. If you can't tell already, I'm not the biggest fan of the heat (summer sux !!!!).

We got to Prague around 10:30 am Thursday morning and then went straight to our apartment. After taking a little break and getting ready, we left to go explore. We stopped at this cool market where they sold a ton of souvenirs and produce. After that, we walked over to Main Market Square. I love that Prague has cute little cobble-stone streets with beautiful buildings in all different colors. We pretty much were dying from it all. In the square, there's a tall clock tower that you can pay like $3 to walk up, so of course we did it. And the view was sooo good. It was just the best view of the whole city and we stayed up there for a little while. After that we walked over to the St. Charles Bridge, which is pretty cool. There are a bunch of vendors scattered throughout and usually some musical performers, but it's also the most popular place for pickpocketing so we all were extra careful haha. We walked around the city on the other side of the river and then walked up to the Prague castle, which is pretty amazing too. When we were all walking down from the castle, we decided to go into this cool Thai massage place that we saw on the way up. We were pretty much going in for one reason only, and that was large tanks of fish they had that eat your dead skin off haha. We've all seen it on TV, but it's illegal in America for some reason. At first I was a little iffy on doing it with the other girls because I'm really ticklish on my feet, but decided to do it anyways because I'm trying this new thing where I stop being a wimp and get out of my little comfort zone. It's going great! Anyways, it wasn't too comfortable in the beginning haha. It felt like little spiders were all over my feet, which as you can probably imagine doesn't feel too good. We paid for 15 minutes, so around the 7 minute mark I started to relax and it was enjoyable! Plus, our feet felt so soft afterwards haha. So if you ever have the chance, do it! Afterwards, we went to dinner and watched the sun set on the river. Such a good day!

Main Market Square

If you haven't gotten the hint: I love architecture. Especially Prague architecture.

Prague Castle

The next morning, we had to check out by 10 am so we took our stuff to the train station and put it in a locker because our train didn't leave until like 5 pm. We had gotten suckered into buying tickets for a boat tour on the canal, so we went and did that. It ended up being really fun! It was in this cool boat, and there was a guide who told us a lot of history about the bridge and all the buildings. Apparently a lot of movies are filmed in the river because it resembles Venice but it's cheaper to film in Prague. Pretty cool! After the ride, we went back to the square and walked around some more. We also got a traditional treat thing which of course I forgot the name of haha. But they sold them everywhere, and it's like a sweet breaded cylinder thing. We got ours with nutella in the middle and it was so good! Afterwards, we left for the train station.

On the St Charles Bridge