Hey Prague! Czech Me Out...

We arrived in Prague on Wednesday evening but decided to just go to bed when we got in that night. On Thursday morning we walked across the Charles Bridge to Prague Castle. I think we spent a little too much time there and were ripped off by the man at the ticket counter and it was a little cold but it was neat to see the changing of the guard at noon. We got to see Good King Wenseslas' tomb and learned more than you would expect while tooling around the Cathedral with our audio guides. All that we seemed to retain, however, was something about cooking babies on skewers, how a king's brain had been preserved in this tomb, that Wenseslas was murdered by his brother (he is so beloved that every Czech King since him has merely borrowed the crown from him), and that his grandmother had been choked to death by her own scarf. We lurked around the castle grounds for a little longer before grabbing lunch in a cafe near the castle. It is hard to find something to eat in Prague that doesn't have beef or lamb or pork in it, so I ordered a pizza. After crossing the Charles Bridge back to Old Town Prague, we did a bit of souvenir shopping, which included the purchase of a hat on my part since my ears had turned scarlet due to the cold. Leave it to my luck, however, that it warmed up the next day and I haven't needed the hat since then. On Thursday night we went to one of Prague's famous night clubs where Erin and Lee proceeded to humiliate themselves by dancing to techno music with intoxicated Europeans.
Friday morning I split off from the group and explored the Jewish quarter, which includes four synagogues, a holocaust memorial, and the old Jewish cemetery. The graveyard was amazing, now I'm no fan of graveyards, but this one was full of the oldest headstones you can imagine that were practically piled on top of each other. The spacing was interesting to examine and the number of graves and I started to wonder how far down all the bodies actually were considering the number of tombstones. Anyways, after the Jewish quarter I sat in the Old Town Square for probably two hours just people watching which was fantastic. I swear Old Town was exactly like the Renaissance Festival, except real life. I still cannot get past the fact that people were actually sitting around eating sausages and dancing to Czech music in public like that. It was great.
On Saturday I got to see Will and we just walked around the river all afternoon and it was a pretty nice day so it was enjoyable. We ate dinner at a medieval restaurant and then the group did a ghost tour of the city and I was planning on meeting up with Will again but I fell asleep. We spent 13 hours on the train yesterday which was intense and I met someone from Silver Spring at my bus stop once we were back in Luxembourg. All in all it was a generally positive trip. Two albums of photos can be found here and here!