Finally took a day off from the gym today and instead walked around Prague a little bit with Kristin. We got coffee in a very nice coffee shop where they give free refills!!! Today (Tuesday) is also Ashley's (my best friend who goes to Union with me) birthday today so we also got a piece of delicious chocolate cake (I found the death by chocolate of Prague) in honor of her birthday. I was able to skype with her a bit which was very good. I will definitely be going back to the coffee shop to have coffee, lunch and study. It is a very cozy hole in the wall place we had recommended to us. We walked on the Charles Bridge and I took some pictures myself since last time I was there I didn't have a camera. The first picture a view of the east side of the river from the bridge. The second is the Charles River Bridge Tower. And the third is Tyn Cather or The Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. It has been the main church of Old Town since the 14th century. I also got to take a video of the Astronomical clock becasue we conveniently were there at the top of the hour. Later tonight I went out to dinner with Hillary her aunt who came to visit for a few days, Liz, Kristin, and Allie. It was Hillary's aunts last night in Prague and we took her to this great restaurant in Old Town. I got a delicious tuna salad with a humongous amount of vegetables, yum so healthy. Tonight we have our country presentation. We are going to be dancing to the Cotton Eyed Joe, Cha Cha Slide, and Soulja Boy. We will be making Cape Coders (cranberry and vodka) for our drink, and Jodi is making a slide show to show everyone a little about the US of A. I am wearing flip flops(only Americans where them here) and my Red Sox shirt and hat! Should be a fun night!! Well that's all for now, class all day tomorrow and most likely the gym, nothing too interesting but I will update on how the party went!!

(sorry about the video being sideways, I can't figure out how to turn it. Its on photobucket too)

Wow this has been a busy week. We got back very late Monday night so I took Tuesday to catch up on some sleep and get some laundry done and clean up a bit. I had class pretty much all day Wednesday but Wednesday night we had a party in the basement bar and Sweden, Norway and Slovenia did their country presentations. Angela and I missed most of them because we forgot about the party and were at the gym longer than expected. We went down a little later and got to see some pictures from the night from a friend of ours camera. Nothing really interesting happened on Thursday except Kristin and I went exploring in the area around our dorm. We walked around a bit and then it got surprisingly cold so we found a little cafe and got coffee and this chocolate cake that was amazing!! At 4pm we headed to our Czech Culture class where we learned many many interesting and new things. This is going to be the best class I take here. We get to learn about the economy, traditions, history, democracy, and media. We also are going to be taken to a gallery to see a Czech artists work, see a movie in Czech, and go to a Czech professional hockey game!!
Friday morning Angela and I had to get up at 5am becasue Angela's mom, mom's boyfriend, and her grandparents flew in from JFK at 6am and we along with Paola met them at the airport to show them to their hotel. After we dropped them at the hotel Angela and I went to the gym for a morning painful work out. We were very sore from the day before. Angela spent the day with her family and I hung out with Kristin and Marc and we bought preparations for Marc's 21st birthday party. About 12 of us went out to dinner (pic to the left) to a wonderful restaurant where I got svickova which is marinated beer sirloin in a heavy sauce served with potato dumplings. Afterward Marc had reserved the game room and we invited all the Union kids and a few others and had a great time! We split up into two group and some went to a club of Marc's choice that was a techno bar which was pretty far away. But a group of us stayed behind and went to a club closer by called Lucerna music bar and they were having an 80's and 90's dance party which was really fun!!

Saturday morning we woke up early and Angela and I went to the zoo with her family. We had a great time there despite how tried we were. The Praha Zoo is in the top 10 of zoos in the world and I can see why. It is huge! We were there for 4 hours and only got to see about half of the zoo! The cool thing was that the animals were not in cages they were in open areas and there were only wooden posts separating us from them. For dinner we found a great traditional restaurant where we got Becherovka, the traditional Czech liqueur that tastes like Christmas, not even kidding it is a mix of gingerbread, pine, cinnamon, and holly in your mouth, so good.

This morning (Sunday) we got up and went to church. Angela and I met her family at Our Lady Victorious which is the church of the Holy Child of Prague. This church is where the statue of the child Jesus is where people from all over the world come to see and pray. One is supposed to go to the statue and the more times you pray to the child the more luck you will have in life. The service was held in English and the inside of the church was absolutely beautiful! There were gold statues and marble columns everywhere and the decorations was beautiful as well. We were not allowed to take pictures during services but I hope to walk around Old Town again on my own on Tuesday to see some things again now that I have a camera. Well Angela and I are off to the gym and are making Caprese pasta tonight which includes pesto, fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and whole wheat penne.