So, next day in prague marty and i get up early. have a relly good breakfast at the hostel and then walk more around the famous sites we missed yesterday. This picture is of the Charles bridge again and of a hot air balloon! The white circle in the sky in the picture.
We walk across the river to the Lennon wall. Which is this wall that people graffiti to commemorate john Lennon after he died and people have kept graffiting it ever since with beatles lyrics and give peace a chance things. Seeing the words "all you need is love" always makes me think of you. We walked to the Old town square again, and were looking for this store marty wanted to go too but never found it.
Then we went to meet my cousin Michael. To get there we walked through Wenceslas Square. Have you ever heard the song good King Wenceslas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcQYsujAVC0) ? i used to play it on the recorder and love it, so it was cool to be where he was from. Didnt have the exact address of where to meet Michael but we actually did find it in time which was actually really lucky. it was this cool indie coffee shop. He texted me before telling me where he was sitting so it was easy to recognize him. He brought his dog too! The dog was cute, but barked at us, he liked marty a lot. I was worried about it being awkward but it really wasnt. Micheal was really easy to talk to. Im really glad I got to connect with another family member, especially since my family is so small. We didnt meet for that long, and after marty and i went back to the Jewish quarter to meet up with Neil again. We walked up to where this metronome sculpture is.
It is this huge metronome that ticks back and forth all day. It was a lot creekier than I though it would be up close, and neil said that it breaks all the time. There used to be a huge Lenin statue there, but when communisim fell in Prague, which wasnt that long ago (After WWII Prague was siezed by Russia and was forced to be communist and lived under horrible oppression), they blew up the statue and put this metronome there.
Then we went to these gardens at the Senate House. There was a peacock there! just running around. And a pond and this thing called the dripping wall.
Im not exactly sure how it got to be there. But it is all these stalagmites but then there are carved faces and animals in it too.
Also there were owls there! Four of them. They were actually really scary and mean looking. They are such mysterious animals, it was so cool and suprsing to see them. Neil had been to the gardens a couple of times and never even realized that they were in there. For dinner we wen to this cute little thai restaurant. I had chicken and pineapple you would have loved it.
After we left neil we did a little shopping, but I didnt get anything.
Then later that night we met up and went to this underground labyrinth bar that was all these tunnels with cut out ares to sit and bars. We drank this stuff called young wine which is wine before its full fermented, tasted like alcoholic grape juice. And we meet up woth neil's friend (her name was briel) and her family that had just flew into prague that day. They were such a nice family, it was fun to talk to them. They are from poughkeepsie and so knew new paltz really well! They bought us beer and pizza too.
After we said bye to briel and her family we were some how still hungrey and wen t back to those fast food stands. I think i just wanted to spend more time with neil, it was hard to say goodbye to him. but at least we are going to see each other again soon.
Then to bed and up early to drive to Berlin!
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