Prague Castle

Well, the day started off with more unorganized manuevers. First, well, she was pretty, so she could kind of get away with it. But she didn't check to see if this replica of the Eiffel Tower that has a great view up by the castle, was even open. So, of course it wasn't, and then after visiting the castle, as it was 2 PM, and everyone is starving from haven't eating all day, and we can't find a place to eat that probably has more restaurants to eat at then the Midwest combined. It seems that sometimes they seem intent on torturing us. But on to the castle. First, we walked up behind the town, mainly Prague, beneath the castle. All these houses were so pretty with their vibrant colors giving them individuality yet it was cool to see all the roofs connected, like in the movies when there would be chase scenes just hopping from roof to roof. It's funny, how most of my perception of Europe is based off of cinema. Weird how that would have as much of an effect as it has. I constantly find myself thinking, o yeah, this street looks like something out of Bourne Identity. Of course, it is, but still, its just what I think. They say Prague's castle is the biggest in Europe and maybe the world. I could defiitely see it. Everything is so ancient and genuine, breathtaking. But of course, as we are walking up to the castle gates, we see the stationary guards, 'guarding' the castle. So, we need a lot of pictures, and man do they have to hate that. But I would like to know what they do besides stand there and not move. Not like they are facing the Austrian-Hungarian empire thwarting a menacing force of battalion anytime soon. But we played with the guard guy, Mr. Bean style. then we head into the castle. Once again, the intricacy of everything. I learned this castle took something like 400 to 500 years to build. It needed every second of it. The steeples had these hand-carved crosses that easily took 5 years for each one of them, standing easily a hundred feet tall. Then in the center of the castle grounds is St. Vitus Cathedral. Apparently they are very, very good at their stained-glass windows here. Gorgeous. No pictures can capture the beauty of this inside. It's almost as if I just wanted to camp out there and admire the castle every day just so I would never forget it. But, after moseing around inside the cathedral, I couldn't wait for our group any longer, so I ran around the courtyard like a school boy getting his first taste of recess. I became hardcore tourist again, taking pictures of everything. Really, when they say pictures don't do it justice, they mean it. Especially about here. So, if you want to see it, come see me! I'm just kidding, don't come see me, I'm busy I have a test that day.... ha. But one thing about this castle, that I didnt expect, is it looked so nice inside, the grounds and the walls and they even had little shops inside. It was almost too nice of a castle. I expected more ruggedness and antiquity. Granted, it had it, I guess I just expected like catapults and holes in the wall from old battles and maybe even a corpse hanging from the rafters... whoops, definitely not that. But definitely a great time at the castle, I'm going back fo' sho'.
Tonight, was the first Nation2Nation party. This was the beginning of meeting everyone. But, first, I come down and sit with these Norwegians and Germans. The Norwegians, buy everyone in the bar a beer cause in Norway its apparently like 12$ for one beer! Yeah, so when it is only 1$ a beer, you can imagine the glow on their face. But basically, we meet everyone, we walk down the street to a club, and dance the night away. This is the first of meeting the Dutch for me. Dennis, Anouk and Susanne (Zeus). They were a fun group this night, and I very much enjoyed dancing with them. But, it was funny, especially this first night. It was just a giant make-out party. Everyone was trying to make out or hook up with someone else... actually kind of funny to dance on stage and see it all. No more comment on that. But the music at these discos, very good. Way better than home, and way more fun to dance to. And man can I tell you how sick I was of doing that stupid grinding dancing... I hate that. This is actually dancing, and way more fun. Literally could do it all night. But that was the first n2n party. More to come.