We're enjoying Prague!

Us by Prague Castle

Hello again! Sorry it has been a few days since we've written. We've been busy traveling around and around. We can't believe we are already half way through our trip! We are seeing some amazing sights! Since we last wrote we spent one more day in Paris, then 2+ days in Budapest and yesterday we arrived in Prague. We've figured that on some days we are walking around the city for around 5-7 hrs!! So we are pretty exhausted by now! The weather here in Prague has been nice and warm, perfect for strolling around the old city.

Our last day in Paris we went to the Museum d'Orsay (which I think is better than the Louvre). We also had a fantastic time eating ice cream and walking around all the neighborhoods that we hadn't seen yet or that we wanted to go back to! During the day a bunch of fighter jets flew over the city, with helicopters...it was all very suspicious so we are curious to what was going on. During the evening, we saw the Sacre Couer in the Montmarte neighborhood (which a great view of the city) and went to the Moulin Rouge. We stayed out late, we ate crepes with nutella and saw the eiffel tower sparkel up with light. We now miss Paris a bit, but after 5 days we were plenty ready to head to a new city.

Budapest in Hungary was a great relaxing place. It was much larger than we thought and was just like all other european cities, huge with old churches and buildings. So we didn't end up taking many pictures. But Budapest did have it's charm and the guesthouse we stayed at was very quaint and perfect for our needs. When we first arrived we walked through the older, more green gardens on Castle Hill the first day. We saw some magnificant churches in all different styles as well as the older palace with some amazing views of the river Danube and the city. The parliament across the river looked like a castle. One evening on a walk there was even a rainbow right over parliament...unfortunately this was probably the one and only time we did not have our camera with us - figures!! That was one of my favorite parts of our trip. On our last day in Budapest we went to a relaxing turkish (well hungarian now!) bathhouse. It was so fantastic to lay in the sun and take a nap! The water was warm and refreshing, even though it was warm outside. There were a ton of people there and it was interesting to people watch with everyone in their swimsuits! We are now in search of european swim trunks for Dan :) I think we were even part of a commercial that was being filmed there.

We arrived in Prague by a 7hr train - which actually wasn't that bad. We got to see a few contries on the way and we were sitting next to a very nice american couple that had been to prague before, so we ate our lunch, read, napped and talked with the couple. The funnies thing happened when we were waiting for our tram to our hostel. Two scrappy men got into a fight - well it wasn't even a fight....they more were attempting to kick at each other, I don't think anyoen even swung. It was kinda funny to watch. Well, then one of the guys huffed off all mad and I guess he called the police (why...I'm not sure, they barely touched each other). So the police went to find the other guy, but they happened to park just in the way of the tram tracks. So ironically enough after we had been waiting for about 15mins for our tram, our tram finally came barreling down the street BUT the police car was in the way. So the driver got out and tried to dramatically eye up if he could pass our not (this was actually the funniest part!). All the other trams ended up stacked up down the street, and there were quite a few of them! He ran around and around trying to find teh police and laughed because the police were the ones in our way. It was just funny to watch everyones reaction and Dan and I were laughing because we knew that the hold up was all because of two scrappy men attempting to fight eachother. Anyways, it was a humorous beginning to our time in Prague

Here are some pictures from today in Prague. We went across the old St. Charles bridge to the Prague castle. We didn't pay to go in today, but we might tomorrow.

Dan finally got some belgium chocolate here - he had been searching for the perfect place!