Travelling and munich

This morning we woke up and packed and headed into old town. We wanted to grab lunch but Charlie only had a limited time so we ended up sitting with him while he ate at starbucks and then said good bye. Everything in the town was closed as far as shops and we didn't have too much time to kill. We ended up eating at the same restaurant we had lunch at the day before and it was still delicious! After linch we headed over to the farris wheel. It was pretty cool to see the city from up that high! It was a cable car ferris wheel and some of the cars were set up for a romantic dinner. It looked pretty cool! To bad I have no one to have a romantic dinner with. After the ferris wheel we went to catch our train. There was a problem at one of the metro stations and although we ran and sped walked we still ended up watching our train pull out of the station. Oops. It wasn't that big of a deal and we caught the next on 25 minutes later. That train ended up running late so we missed our connection and had to wait another hour for the next train which was packed! When we arrived in Munich we headed off to our hostel. It was a longer walk than the map indicated but we made it. The people here are so nice! We were lost and debating if we should keep walking or turn around and some guy walked by and asked where were we trying to go. So nice. Another man helped us too. Our hostel is a 10 bed dorm style which sucks because I was under the impression it was just us. Not the case! It's nice and clean though so I'm happy! After a while of catching up with life back home we walked across the street to a beer garden and had a couple beers and some dinner. We didn't eat until 10 so I wasn't really hungry anymore. I got a mix of meats on a plate and the skin on the pork tasted like bacon. Mmmm! I actually only ate the skin and none of the meat. Hah. We went back and went to bed and at about 3 in the morning our roomates came home and kept the light on for 45 minutes. Ugh. But overall a pretty uneventul day but fun! 

Traveling to Munich

This morning we woke up and packed and headed into old town. We wanted to grab lunch but Charlie only had a limited time so we ended up sitting with him while he ate at starbucks and then said good bye. Everything in the town was closed as far as shops and we didn't have too much time to kill. We ended up eating at the same restaurant we had lunch at the day before and it was still delicious! After linch we headed over to the farris wheel. It was pretty cool to see the city from up that high! It was a cable car ferris wheel and some of the cars were set up for a romantic dinner. It looked pretty cool! To bad I have no one to have a romantic dinner with. After the ferris wheel we went to catch our train. There was a problem at one of the metro stations and although we ran and sped walked we still ended up watching our train pull out of the station. Oops. It wasn't that big of a deal and we caught the next on 25 minutes later. That train ended up running late so we missed our connection and had to wait another hour for the next train which was packed! When we arrived in Munich we headed off to our hostel. It was a longer walk than the map indicated but we made it. The people here are so nice! We were lost and debating if we should keep walking or turn around and some guy walked by and asked where were we trying to go. So nice. Another man helped us too. Our hostel is a 10 bed dorm style which sucks because I was under the impression it was just us. Not the case! It's nice and clean though so I'm happy! After a while of catching up with life back home we walked across the street to a beer garden and had a couple beers and some dinner. We didn't eat until 10 so I wasn't really hungry anymore. I got a mix of meats on a plate and the skin on the pork tasted like bacon. Mmmm! I actually only ate the skin and none of the meat. Hah. We went back and went to bed and at about 3 in the morning our roomates came home and kept the light on for 45 minutes. Ugh. But overall a pretty uneventul day but fun! 

Vienna

This morning we all woke up early and headed off for the day. We are again without a blow dryer so our hair is a mess. We showered and then went to a little breakfast place on the shopping street. They all had a nice meal but in hopes of saving money I ate at mcdonalds. It was pretty good but a lot of mayo. They love their mayo in Europe. Too bad they don't know about ranch. After breakfast we walked down to the Nike store where I bought some brazil soccer shorts and promptly put them on. Ahhh so nice. I love sweatpants and I hadn't brought one pair. Have no Idea what I was thinking. These are heaven and I have vowed not to take them off until I get into America. So far so good on that promise. After Nike we got on the subway and rode into the old part of town. We walked through st. Stephans basilica. Another church another day. But the roof was pretty sweet. It had green and white and blue tiles in a cool v pattern. We then walked towards the castle to see what it had. We took some pics and walked around a little before we decided to tour sisi's living quarters. The while first floor was dedicated to china. Every plate they ever used. Bor. Ing. We had an audio guide that we could listen to the history of each piece but for some reason after the 3rd plate room and the 13th number the audio guide fell in my purse. Oh dang. It went all the way into the 50s. Many more rooms. Hot rooms. Very hot rooms. Charlie however was lovin it??? He wouldn't not listen to a number or fast forward. I waited on a bench. Hahah. Then we went up to see the living quarters. I glanced in a mirror on my way up... Wow. I had 2 giant circles under my boobs from sweaing so much and 2 half foot wide sweat marks on eah shoulder where my backpack sat. I looked rediculous. So rediculous I imediately changed my shirt. But not before I got a pic. Don't worry. The living quarters were a lot more interesting than the plates. I actually listened to the guide but def. Fast forwarded and skipped some. Grace was the slow one here. Get it girl. I was suprised by how small their space was. I'm sure it was bug back then but now days it would be considered tiny! It was actually very goregous though. Red walls with elegant white and gold ceilings. It was very cool to see. When we finished we went outside to wait for grace and much to our dismay the weather turned. It even threatened to rain. Ahhhhh so so happy. We walked around the corner as it rained on us in search of food. No complaints! We ate at the first place we came to and I am in love. They give you a card when you walk in and then you go get your food. You have the option of pizza, salad or pasta. If you get pizza you order it and they give you a buzzer. For the others though you walk up to the chefs and tell them your order and they make it right on front of you. I was in love. Such an awesome place. They all ordered pizza which I will never understand but I got pasta. They didn't have an English menu which makes it hard but you know it's better because they are catering to the locals, not the tourists. The shrimp dishes looked so good that I just asked the chef which menu options had shrimp. One with a tomato and one with a white sauce and spinach. I got the white sauce and chose my noodle. They had 8 different options of noodles which were made in house. It was top 3 meals of the trip. Cream sauce with a little pesto and big shrimp and Parmesan with spinach and tomatoes. Oh wow. And! At the table they had fresh herbs on the table. Like in pots pick a leaf of basil or thyme off fresh. ahhh. It was delcious. 

After lunch we went to go find the Freud museum. Grace was upset because we didn't see more of the castle so we went and looked aroud more. We saw the gardens and the city hall which they were setting up for a big Aids event with a giant red carpet. It looked awesome. It's just hard to make everyone happy because no one will voice their oppinions making it impossible to get things done. We walked all the way across town to goto the freud museum and when we got there decided to goto a wine garden instead. About then I put my map away and said I'm not navigator anymore. I'm follower. Tell me where to go and what to do and I will be happy. We took the metro to it's end and then got on a tram and took it to it's end and then imediately found a wine garden and went in. We had a glass of wine or two and talked for an hour or so and then headed back to get ready for the evening. On our way we went to go to a couple stores. I wanted another pair of shorts and a clutch so I can throw my purse away. It's entirely too hot to wear that thing around. Eww. Grace wanted a bra and we popped pit right in front of a place. That was the only store we went to. Everywhere closed at 6. Grr. Everywhere. And they weren't open Sundays. Ugh so we got more ice cream and headed back to the hostel. They all showered but I read instead. No point in showering without a hair dryer. Haha. Grace and sarah looked all cute... I wore my blue shorts hahah. We didn't leave until around 9 and we went to this food circus. Apparently Vienna puts on 60 free activities in the summer at the city hall for the people to enjoy and there are food stands along the sides. It ended up being the aids benefit which was very amazing. They had a giant red carpet and a orchestra with dancers and singers and amazing graphics. It was very cool. It was vey packed though. We had to push our way in and lost Charlie and Sarah once we got in. They didn't want to brave the crowd and grace was upset but I told her who cares let's just have fun. It wasn't that crowded when we got in or at least people weren't touching me but we only got to be there for about 15 minutes before the downpour started. I welcomed it. Anything but 105 degree weather is welcome in my book! We stayed for a couple more minutes and then headed off to meet the others. It took us 30 minutes to find them and when we got the grace was pissed and they had left us. We called and they came back and then she let them have it. I was the middle man tryin to keep the peace haha. We went back to a cook Irish pub we had found but they didn't serve food and it was now 10:30 and no one had eaten dinner so that was quickly vetoed. We ended up in another place with individual beer taps at each table but ours didn't have one. Sad. There weren't many food choices but I got wings. I was worried about wings without ranch but they were good. Plain with a sweet chili sauce. Mmm. And potatoe wedges. I was still hungry after though. We had originally wanted to go out for the night but after all the events we decided to just go home. When we went to go outside it was pouring rain again. It was interesting finding the metro but we did as we ran through the rain. It was so much fun. When we came out of the metro we declared it a race to the hostel and went out the wrong exit and ran in the wrong way. I was the first to realize which way was the right way... Behind us... So I went that way. The walked behind me but didn't follow me and grace ran across the street and the other two another way. I ended up waiting for 10 minutes for them to figure out where the were and then got yelled at. Awesome. Now Sarah was the middleman haha. We went back and I emailed my job to make sure I still have one to come back to and then read and went to bed. My bed was soaked from the rain because our window was open. Grr. But it was a pretty good day and night!    

End of prague and vienna

This morning we woke up and packed all our stuff. We woke up late and it seemed to take forever and we didn't end up getting over to Charlie and sarahs place until around 12. It's another incredibly hot day so when we went to eat lunch air conditioning was a major requirement. Haha. We only had a short time to eat before our train left for Vienna, Austria, so we inhaled our food. I got some beef with cranberry sauce and dumplings. I don't know what I thought dumplings were but not a dense piece of bread that's for sure. But that is the gyst of what they are. The meat was delicious. After lunch we hurried back to the apartment to grab our bags and then got on the metro to the train. It was leaving late which was fine. Should have gotten snacks. Grr. We got on the train and sweated our you know what's off for about 6 hours. Dripping sweat. Literally. It was so so so hot. I couldn't take it. I ended up putting my water bottle behind my neck which helped but still hot. Took a couple naps and read my book and sat there in boredom. It seemed so long. When we finally got to vienna we found a map and headed to the metro to find our hostel. We were staying at the strawberry hostel which was about a block away from our metro stop. We dropped our stuff and headed off to find food. Our room is nice, 2 beds and 2 couches that are pretty much beds. We are travelling with their friend from school, Charlie. He is nice. Talks about his girlfriend a lot, but nice. We weren't too far from the main shopping strip and after a few menu searched sat down at a cafe. They brought us drinks and then our bill. I think they were confussed that we wanted dinner too. I got a carbonera with egg and white sauce and bacon. It was ok. Nothing to write home about. After dinner Charlie had been noticing a steady stream of people with ice cream walking towards us so we headed off in an ice cream search. Oh my god. The place we found was soo good. Best presentation so far! They dolluped it on the cone in the side, then put another flavor next to it and then a third. They weren't stacked on top of eachother, but next to eachother. So cheap and so much ice cream and so good! We walked with our ice cream and looked around for a while and then headed back to our hostel and called it a night. When we got in I took the coldest shower that it would let me. To the point of goosebumps. It felt so nice but the coldness did not last long! Then i curled up and went to bed. Long day of travel... Another one hahah.    

Prague day two

This morning i slept in until around 9 and then got ready to go out for the day. Grace had already left so I was kinda confussed on where I should go but decided on the castle. In prague they have a tram and a metro system and I don't speak Czech and therefore really Sony understand the trams so I took the subway which is a lot easier. I should have grabbed breakfast somewhere but I didn't. Stupid girl. When I got off the metro I was confussed on where to go and ended up taking the really long route to the castle. It's ok I like the scenic view. When I got up there I walked through the main gates which had guards and were gold encrusted and went and bought a ticket. I stood in like to go inside the church which was pretty inside but again I feel like they are all starting to look the same. The stain glass windows in their was my favorite part! They were ginormous and beauiful! After the church i went inside 2 more buildings. Both very boring and I was famished at this point so my stomach was my #1 concern so I took a few pictures and then got back on the metro to meet up with grace in her class where they fed me haha. Traditional Czech food. Dessert was amazing haha! After lunch we went souvy shopping. Or they did. I walked behind in the intense heat and groaned haha. It's so flipping hot here that if I had my umbrella with me I would no question about it be "that" tourist with an umbrella up in the sunlight. Hah. We got to see the square which was awesome and then after a while of walking around we went back to get ready for the night. We ended up being about 20 minutes late to dinner but it ended up being good because we didn't have to sit inside in the hot unair conditioned, un-fanned building. We got outside in the somewhat breeze. Ahh. Dinner was alright and after we headed to a place called the pub where you could pour your own beer at the table and it would keep track on a big screen and at your table. We lost the competition but some people were like 65 beers deep so I'm ok with the loss. It was a pretty cool idea though! After a few drinks we headed back to one of their apartments and then off to absinthe time. I've had it before and think it's disgusting so i just watched as everyone lit their sugar cube and shot on fire and then took it. Then we walked across the street to a club to get our dance on. We ended up getting another fish bowl and dancing for a while. I was out of money and didn't feel like going to an ATM again when i knew I wouldn't need that currency for much longer so I didn't hop on the drunk train with everyone. This was a good bye night for grace and all her class so there was a lot of crying for some. It took forever but we rounded up everyone and headed to another club. But in the forever time it took to round up everyone I lost my enthusiam to go out so I got a smazny syr aka fried cheese on a bun, which they had been raving about since I got there and headed home with one of graces friends. It was a fun night but a little wierd. We leave for Vienna tomorrow and 7 days until I come home! Haha

Prague day one

This morning I woke up and thought grace had left me without anything because her class started at nine and it was definately past nine! But I went and looked in her room and she was still sleeping too haha. We ended up just hanging out in her apartment all morning. I wrote my blog while she slept haha. At around 11 we started moving for the day. We got dressed and headed out to catch a tram and a metro so we could meet her class. We ended up going to the modern art museum. It took forever to get there and the heat in this town is unbearable. No ac anywhere. No fans either. And it has to be over 100. Unbearable. It was giving me a headache and we all just walk around in silence. It's too hot to talk. We walked into the art museum and they had this giant egg that you could push and It would wobble and a bell would chime. I was so excited that the whole museum was going to be like that. It was not. It was pretty boring art but some of it was cool to look at. I saw some picasso and Monet but after 2 hours I was starving and ready to leave. We left and decided to goto Charles bridge and see the sights but first we stopped and got a bagel. Tuna is wierd over here. I can't wait for some American tuna haha. After a hot a sweaty lunch we got on another tram and headed for the bridge. We stopped in a few shops just to use their air conditioning. Haha. After a while of walking we made it to the bridge. Very cool but oh my god the heat. Grace and Sarah wanted to shop for pictures so I found myself perched under the statues for shade. It was cool to see but honestly I'm done looking at buildings. I feel like after you have seen a few thousand you've seen them all. After the bridge we hoofed it to some famous architect's building grace wanted to go have a coctail on top of. No shade. Coctail hour was cut little short. After the building we headed back to her apartment to take a nap and get ready for the night. Nap time lasted a little too long and getting ready took forever so we were a lot late getting out. We went and had dinner in this incredibly loud and hot restaurant which was pretty good! Fetuccini with Alfredo and chicken. Mmm. Then everybody from her class showed up outside so we headed out for the night. The night was a bust. We took a long tram ride to this bar where a pub crawl was going on at. It was so hot and steamy in there that I lifted a foot to step in the door and as soon as I opened it turned around and said I need another minute in the cool air before I brave that. Keep in mind cool air is 75 degrees still. Whew so we ended up sitting on the corner watching all of these tools and their nice cars and bleach blonde bimbos parade around eachother. Haha. Quite entertaining. After all of that we all just wanted to goto bed so that's what we did. :)   

Travel and Prague

So this morning i woke up to the hotest train cabin in the world and an hour early. The lady said she would come by and wake us up an hour before  the train arrived at 11:40 and she woke us up 2 hours early. That should have been my first clue something was wrong. My second should have been we weren't moving.  The whole night they froze us to death and now that it's morning and the sun is blazing in. Nothing. I thought I was going to pass out from heat stroke. We sat still for over an hour and a half. Ugh. When I went to bed at night there was a car attached to the barthroom. When I woke up an engine and when I came out of the bathroom. Nothing. Just the track hahha. So we sat there forever and ate our roll for breakfast. Long story short they messed up and we didn't get into Prague until 4:40. Five hours late. Awesome. Apparently we were late and our engine didn't wait for us. I don't know. But after all my creeper experiences I'm getting good at detecting the non creepers to sit with. I found a nice mom and daughter from Texas or something. I got my magazine fix too! Ahh. When I arrived I was starving because all they fed us was a roll and I got one more from the asains. I had to get a subway pass and get krowns. Now I have four currencies with me. Yay. So I took 2 subways and met up with grace! It's so good to be with my friends again! I sat with them while they did their homework at a pub and then we went to her apartment. It is so nice!! Free washing machine and a hair dryer and an actual apartment! I get to sleep on the couch but I don't care! It's comfy and it's free and it has amenities! Yay! We all got ready and went out to a jazz festival in old town. The square is goregous and it was a lot of fun to be in that scene! I got ham from a vendor for dinner and later found that I was ripped off. Mine was so expensive comared to theirs! And the prices here really freak me out! I have been here 2 days and still have to pull out my converter to see how much I'm spending. Dinner is about 250 krowns which is about $12.50. I just had to pull out the converter to tell you that. Haha. I'm so confussed. We sat and watched the festival for a while and then went out to meet the others and find a club. We went a had a beer at an empty place and then headed off to another club. There were more people at this one but the music was terrible. Not terrible but it wasn't in any of my top picks. It was 90s American music. Music from at least ten years ago. When I asked the dj if he had anything more recent he had no idea what I was saying. I still don't know how to say please or thank you or anything in Czech. We ended up getting a fish bowl drink. Which is exactly what it sounds like... They make one giant drink and put it in a fish bowl and shove a lot of straws in it hahha. We had a lot of fun but it was kinda dull. There ended up being a little drama at the end of the night but grace and I just ended up going home and going to bed. But it was still 3 in the morning haha. Long day but good to be with friends again!