PRAHA

So this past weekend was my first foray out into Europe.  A couple of my roommates and I booked a pretty last minute trip to Prague, or Praha in Czech.  Despite being there for 3 days, this is still probably the only word of Czech I know, so we had to pull the "dumb American tourist" card quite a bit.  Regardless, the plane ticket to Prague was probably one of the greatest buys of my life. 

*Point of note for all future trips: when you have to be up at 3 for your flight, staying up til 1:30 playing Landmines might not  be the best idea.  Quick shout out to Olivia, who ran out to the store at 2 in the morning and made us sandwiches for the trip, which would have been infinitely more painful on an empty stomach.

*Boarding on a discount airline is vicious.  Essentially you're forced to wait around until your gate is posted on the board, and then it's a mad sprint to beat everyone on your flight.  And being first actually matters here, because you get the one row in the plane with extra leg room.  We found out the hard way by coming in second, and my knees were in my chest the entire flight.

*Prague is an interesting city in that it doesn't have a quintessential tourist attraction like a lot of the other cities in Europe, and lacks the one big postcard monument (think Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa status).  Oh you say I'm wrong, well here's a picture of the biggest tourist spot in Prague:

This random thing on the wall is the Astronomical Clock.  And every hour hoards of people stand around to see the clock move. Cool story bro.


*When one of my roommates told his boss that we were going to Prague, his boss said that he probably will be seeing a lot of the inside of a pub.  And yeah he pretty much hit the nail on the head with that one.  But when we actually decided to climb up to Prague Castle, it was well worth it.  Just took three stops at different pubs on the way up....

*On Saturday, the girls we were staying with took us to The Pub. Yeah, creative name I know.  Basically the premise of this place is that they have the tap in the middle of the table, so when you want to fill up your glass you just pick your number on the little touch screen and use the tap.  Plus the touch screen is how your order food, and can pick songs to be added to the playlist.  But what sold me on the place was the giant scoreboard on one of the walls.  It ranked everyone who was in one their different locations by which table had drank the most.  Personal accomplishment of the day...we beat Berlin. Best part: go to pay at the end, and it ends up being less than $12.  For the first time in a month and a half I wasn't getting killed by the conversion rate.  This place needs to be in America and it needed to be there yesterday. So if this whole accounting thing doesn't work out for me, I already found my way to make millions.  Strongly considering dropping out of school and starting my own franchise (KIDDING MOM). 

Seriously, let's make this shit happen people.

And despite not knowing more than a word or two of Czech, we made it back to the airport in one piece.  Prague set the bar REAL high, I hope the rest of Europe (more specifically Ireland, Switzerland, Florence, and Paris) is ready to bring it.