Posted by: Caroline | August 1, 2007

Shopping with 3,000 Czech dollars

The girls room was up and wanting to shower by noon, the guys slept in a little longer.. so in the mean time we went out and grabbed some breakfast/lunch. When we got back with the food the guys were ready to go get something to eat themselves. We split up for the afternoon since the girls wanted to get some shopping done … and the guys didn’t seem super interested. We met up that evening around 5, walked around for awhile and eventually our stomachs started talking to us again. It was crazy shopping in Prague due to the differences in currency! I bought some tennis shoes for 719 Czech korunas!! and that was cheap, most price tags rang in at 3,000 Czech for shoes!! In reality 719 Czech is only 35 or so dollars.. it still made it look way more expensive. During our first trip to the ATM in Prague we took out 3,000 Czech.. we felt like high rollers… when in reality we found out 20 minutes later that it was equivalent to 90 or so dollars and we would have to made more trips to get much more money out!!

That evening we returned to our favorite steak place because after seeing Josh’s steak everyone wanted one of their own! We ate some dinner at the place around the corner and then decided to spend the evening down towards the river at the Charles Bridge in a big time Club next door to the one we were at the night before.

Again we arrived at the club early and luckily there was no lines or super crowds. We walked in and the first floor was extremely hot already, so we decided to explore a little the 5 remaining floors up. All 8 of us stuck together the entire night.. I am sure we stuck out as the 8 Americans in the bar! At the very top floor we found an almost relaxing room full of bright red couches. This is where we decided to spend the next 4+ hours at, and we quite enjoyed ourselves. It wasnt overly crowded.. and our little corner we chose was comfortable to hang out in!

The night grew late once again, time seems to fly when you are having fun as the saying goes. We walked a quick 10 min walk home and all crashed. None of us looked forward to the early 7 AM wake up call in order to catch our train home.

I’m not going to lie, the train ride home was not as pleasant as others, we were all super tired, but we are only in Prague together once and we all had the most fun possible! It seems to be a theme going on during our weekends, enjoy everything now.. and sleep later!

It is amazing that I am actually looking forward to get back to IU.. to GET SLEEP :)


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  1. Caroline and Josh, your narrative was very interesting and the photos were great. I loved the photos of that old bridge and castle.


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