Monday, June 22, 2015

PraHa. PrAgue. PraGa

Eric planned a celebratory I-just-graduated-and-this-is-the-last-long-vacation-time-Ill-have-for-a-while European trip where he met up with two friends living abroad and me of course!  He organized three weeks, knowing he'd be going to Barcelona, Munich and Madrid but he wanted to pick a fourth city to visit.  He decided to choose Prague in the Czech Republic, as his friend Evan and I have not been there.  So we planned a trip!  I met them there (after a bit of a fiasco trying to find the Air BnB location).  Let it be known, that while traveling is an incredible experience, it does not come without its difficulties.  I have a lot of respect for people who traveled before the internet and my parents who did it with TWO babies!!!  
















Once I found them, we pretty much immediately went to bed to rest up for the next day.  On 
Saturday we toured the Castle and Cathedral there, walked around,and had some delicious food.  Lot's of meat and potatoes, how can you go wrong?  In the evening we bar hopped, which was a fun way to get around the city as well.  We would order one beer at a place, and the waiters kept asking us if we wanted another round we would say no, because we were about to go get another one somewhere else.  Each time they would look at us with a puzzled expression like What do you mean you only want ONE beer?” Beer is cheaper than water...














Thursday, June 18, 2015

A Forgotten Post

Wrote this is in April...Its been a while since then with lots more updates, more to come!


After a busy spring break week, first Budapest, then Valencia and Sara visiting for a week, I got to relax by going to a Real Madrid Basketball game Friday and a Color Run Sunday.  Im exhausted haha

But it's been such a fun past few weeks and today was easily one of the best days I've had in Madrid.  Several weeks ago my roommates and I signed up for a 5k run, which was good motivation for me to get out and run every other day.  However, today no one actuallllyyyy ran.  Last night we took the shirts that they gave us and cut them up into different designs which made us stand out a bit more.  

Everyone brought beer and and rolled around in the color pigments (which I found out used to be based on brightly colored spices like saffron and tumeric, now its commercial based water dyes or whatever).  Every runner was given a small package of colors to get the party started, and then you started running through color "stations."  Apparently the more color you have on yourself, the better luck you'll have the rest of the year.  

So we walked a 5k while people were throwing colors at us and having a great time!  At the end there was a 3 hour long dance party which was extremely fun...kind of ready to just have a relaxing week and weekend......