The end is near, but the best weeks are still ahead

"The Pub" - pour your own beer place in PRAGUE

Gothic Cathedral^

The John Lennon wall!

Dance Clubzzz

This past weekend I visited Prague which is in the Czech Republic but somehow still considered "Middle Europe". I left on Thursday which was Thanksgiving from Rome @ 4:25 p.m. The night before I went out to a restaurant called "Antiqua Roma" with my buddy Jeff's family. It was an DANK mutli-course meal and his family is great! They were so nice and I am thankful that I got to go out to dinner with them to a restaurant built in to the catacombs of Rome. Anyways back to Prague. Thursday night we got to our hotel/hostel/apartment deal that Ty found for 50 US dollars total for the weekend, which is definitely a steal! We went to a nice thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant called Crazy cow. Ty, Eric, and I had hamburgers while Jimmy had a steak. The currency "Czech Crowns" and everything is very high in numbers so we were not used to that. 3,000 crowns are about $170 US dollars. So when we would eat out or go to a pub our bills would be like 1775 crowns it was very different and hard to get used too!! After dinner we went to a club and danced like we never have before, meeting up with some Santa Clara people! A long night of dancing with Jimmy Sexton took place. Friday we went and checked out the OLD TOWN with the very old clock tower and the center square, seeing the biggest castle in Europe and then after eating KFC at around 12:30 p.m. for dinner we went and partied a club called Lucernia which was a huge dance club. Saturday during the day we walked around after eating at a place called Bohemia Bagel which was outstanding but full of Americans. We went to the NEW TOWN and the Jewish Cemetery which was sort of disturbing. It seems that is a huge mound of Jewish bodies piled up and then have thousands of tombstones all around the top of it. Maybe like a concentration camp? who knows but it was a shocking experience. Prague is very very cold and reminded me of home. During the walks at night to the dance clubs we would have snowball fights with locals and ourselves. It reminded me of home and was really nice! Following walking around all day we meet some girls from Santa Clara for dinner and I had pasta with shrimp and salmon while others had pork and veil with potatoes. Later that night we attended the PRAGUE BAR CRAWL which took us to 4 different very cool clubs and bars as we partied all night once again. We ended at the 5 level club that is the biggest dance club in Europe. It was UNREAL. Multiple levels and different kinds of music. So much fun!! Got home around 4 a.m. and woke up for our taxi at 8:00 a.m. to catch our 11:05 a.m. flight home.

The weekend was amazing and Prague was such a cool more modern city, everyone was so nice.

Only 20 days exactly left in Rome with one weekend away at Budapest. And I can't believe how fast this vacation of a lifetime is flying by!

I will be home before you all know it, can't wait to see everyone. But it will definitely be BITTERSWEET.

/kev/