Prague with the 'Rents

Friday, Oktober 24

My alarm went off at 8:30 am and only half a second later my mom rolled over and said, "Meredith we do NOT use alarms. Understand?" Well, please! Fine by me. I promptly turned that sucker off and grabbed a couple minutes of sleep. After we all finally got out of bed and showered we had breakfast at the hotel and then headed out. But before I go on to the rest of the day, lets go over a couple of things. (1) there was shampoo, soap, and towels in the bathroom that I didn't bring with me! (2) I didn't have to pack the breakfast as my lunch!

Jewish Cemetery

Me and Kafka outside the Spanish Cemetery

Anyways, we toured the Jewish quarter Friday morning and saw the Jewish cymetery, a couple of museums, and a bunch of Synagogues. After seeing them all we headed right across the street from the Spanish Synangogue and had a wonderful lunch where I ate MASHED POTATOES!! We headed back in the area of our hotel, looked inside some churches and did ALOT and i do mean ALOT of shopping (don't worry: none for you, all for me!)!! In the middle of our shopping adventure we stumbled upon these cinnamons doughy things that were hollow in the middle. (imagine your moms curlers that are made out of dough with cinnamon and nuts on top!) They were DELICIOUS!!

Anyway, we finally settled on an Italian restaurant for dinner where we drank the most wonderful wine (Mckinley note: there was no twist-off top) and talked about Berlin sightseeing and history - aka my specialty! We headed back to the hotel and packed up to leave early in the morning for BERLIN!

Another thing I'd like to mention. Prague was freezing! and I take back my earlier comments about the tourism. I mean there were still tons of people there but it was SO much better than when i was there a month or so ago.