Czech Us Out

Day two in the beautiful city of Prague has already come to an end, but what a wonderful day it's been. We woke up to the sounds of extreme snooring coming in from Mrs. DeDe's bunk. We quickly got ready and headed down stairs to eat breakfast in the hotel. After Kristen, Ashley and I finished eating we headed to the store on the corner to buy bottled water with no gas, which is hard to find and more expensive, but don't worry, we found the biggest and cheapest bottles in the city! I've never been so happy to see and drink water!
We started our day off heading towards Old Town Square and Kristen took a nice little trip down the sidewalk, falling down and scraping her knee. She's okay though, she quickly rolled over and busted out laughing. The best part about it though was the lady in front of us turned around, pointed and said "too much to drink last night". We probably laughed for a solid 15 minutes. After that little bump in the road, we continued on and visited the gorgeous St. Francis Church located in the middle of Old Town. It was so lavish and beautiful inside and out.
Our next journey took us over the St. Charles's Bridge, stopping at every statue for photo ops along the way, and into New Town where we experienced Gelato! I can't even think of words to accurately describe how delicious that was! I think we're planning on eating it every day, at least I hope we are! :)
Next stop, the John Hus statue in the center of the town. John Hus was a preacher against the Catholic Church who was persecuted for his belief that people should be able to read the bible in their own languages. His last words were "in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed" and 102 years later Marin Luther nailed his famous theses into the church door at Wittenberg. After listening to Mr. Ray's speech on the history of the statue we separated into groups and prayed for the people of Prauge and all of the tourists from other countries asking God to guide them to follow his word. Before we took off we watched the Astronomical Clock chime on the hour, it was definitely an impressive and memorable experience!
After that we ventured off on the longest round about route to Bohemian Bagel stopping at Brickhouse's favorite store Padagonia. We also took pictures with a golden man and ventured into a massive supermarket. We finally got some food in our stomachs and we're stoked to find out that the refills were FREE! We've also had to adjust to not drinking drinks on ice, but today the soda came straight from the fountain and it was already ice cold! I had a massive and delicious turkey club on a whole wheat bagel, yumm yumm.
We then took off for the Prague Gardens but managed to stop at and sight see along the way. We crossed back over Charles's Bridge and stopped in front of a gate where Mr. Charlie proceeded to tell us about a famous fountain that was suppose to increase fertility if you touched it, so he obviously told us to not even get too close!! When we walked into the gate we were shocked to see a fountain with statues of two men peeing! Our faces we're absolutely priceless.
Once we made it to the gardens we scattered about attempted to see all of the intriguing sites. We took pictures of a beautiful white peacock, sat on the fountain of Venus, and fed the pigeons.
On our journey back to the hotel we stumbled upon the John Lennon Wall which was by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen! It was a massive graffiti wall dedicated to the Beatles and everyone who passes by signs or draws on it. Of course we all added our names and took numerous pictures in front of the colorful display of art. Ashley, Mr. Charlie and Sarah are big Beatles fans so they we're lovin this stop!
After we turned the corner we say a gate completely covered in locks! It was so awesome! Each lock had a name or initials inscribed on it of the person who put it there's lover! Brickhouse told us its used to "lock in love". Ashley happened to have a lock in her suite case so if we go back we're going to add one with the initials JC representing Jesus Christ!
We finally made our way back to the Mossaic House where we briefly checked our facebooks, skyped some family and then headed back out to dinner. This time we were set on experiencing some real Czech food, and don't worry, we found some! We made our way to a little restaurant not far from the hotel. As soon as we sat down we were immediately offered beer and shots, but we politely turned them down. The legal drinking age in Prague is 16 which is unbelievable! The majority of us ordered roasted sausage, pork or chicken which were all served with potatoes, sauerkraut (gross!!), cabbage, bread or potato dumplings. Everything was delicious!
After that I spent the last couple of hours uploading 480 pictures and working on my blog! I hope you guys are enjoying the stories of our travels!! Sarah, Gurkins and Tyndall are going to get on here and write some too!! But for now, its off to bed we go! Night yall!