Karlovy Vary

Thursday night a group of us from Slavojova, Katie, and Katie's friend Joyce [visiting from Paris] went to a bar called Mother-in-Laws. Its a cool bar that we had been to before, on Sean's birthday. When we got there, Caitlin was there so that was really fun! We hung out there for a while before leaving for another bar that we vaguely knew the location. So we walked around for a while trying to find it and then gave up but went to another really cool bar. It was an underground bar. We sat around and had some good talks. When we went to leave, it was pretty late and the door was locked. Everyone thought I was kidding when I said that it was locked but it wasn't. It was doubly funny because Katie is irrationally afraid that we are going to get locked in somewhere and the Czechs are going to attack and kill us. Haha. So silly. But then the bartender finally came up and let us out. That night there were four of us in my two beds: Me, Caitlin, Katie and Joyce. It was pretty hilarious.

Friday night a bunch of us went out to a bar called Blind Eye. There was a really big group of us, but it got continuously smaller as the night progressed. At Blind Eye there is a dance floor and they have good music so when it was just me left with some of the guys they all wanted me to teach them to Swing dance. It was really fun! I was teaching Alex and then Max cut in and I asked him if he knew how to swing dance and he said, "Do I know how to swing dance?" Haha, and then an argument ensued between him and Alex, because apparently he didn't know how but had just been watching me teach Alex and now "Alex looked bad because his brother knows how to swing and he doesn't." It was hilarious. Adnan and I also did some salsa dancing. It was exceptionally fun! When we were coming home there was an incident on the tram where Max and Alex were holding the doors open for Donnie and Nick and then some police officers came over and almost literally through Alex off the tram for no reason. It was freaky and Max was really pissed. When we finally got back we stayed up to make sure the other guys made it home okay and talked. It was a really fun night!

Saturday morning Andy, Pat, Sean M, Nathan, and Andrew left for Karlovy Vary. Thats a little down northwest of Prague. [Its the town that Queen Latifa goes to in the movie The Last Holiday.] When we got off the bus we had no idea where to go and just started walking. We ended up in the wilderness surrounding the town and walked an extra 50 minutes. But we got to see the whole town. All over they town they have the "healing waters" that you can drink. We decided they all taste different but still like dirty bath water. And apparently there are strict "commandments" that one is supposed to observe, but we definitely didn't. Like you have to use the special porcelean cups, you can't water plants or pour it out on the ground, you're supposed to drink it while you are walking, and you are supposed to drink it while standing at the spring. We didn't adhere to any of those. Oops.

The town

Erinn actually adhering to the commandments by drinking out of the special cup

Town from the "turret" as we dubbed it.

Our hostel was really nice. When we got there it was closed and we didn't know what to do. But there was a grill sitting on the deck and jokingly, Pat said "I'll just fire this up" and when he opened the grill our key and information were in there. It was really funny. Chesky was meeting us there so we went back down the mountain to meet up with her for lunch and ran into Erinn. So she joined us and we had lunch. She also introduced us to the "spa wafers" that were only 7Kc and super delicious. We wanted to go get massages but for some reason there aren't massages to be had on weekends, unless you want to pay an arm and leg. So we decided against it and instead payed 20Kc for five minutes in a massage chair. Haha. We didn't really know what to do next so we went back to the hostel and went to the bar connected to it. We played some cards and some Wii before heading up the street for dinner. My dinner got messed up so I ended up with a huge plate of mixed fruits and veggies. It was weird, but definitely the most healthy meal I have had since my arrival. Haha. We also got some dessert before going back to the hostel and just hanging out. This morning we woke up pretty early to get the included breakfast before exploring the town more and then getting on the bus back to Prague.

The hotel from the movie

Karlovy Vary is really cool. It kind of feels like you are on a movie set the whole time because its just too picturesque.