Rain

So I woke up on Sunday a little more abruptly than I planned, I didn't sleep for a while because there was so much noise outside our window. I originally set my alarm for 10am so I would have an hour of breakfast buffet at the hotel, but my another girl knocked on our door around 9:30 asking if we were going to breakfast. I guess it worked because I had time to take a leisurely shower. The breakfast was a spread of meets and cheeses, cereals, breads and teas. As well as coffee and water. I tried a cereal that looked like oats with bits of chocolate. Oh my goodness. That was the chalkiest cereal I have ever had in my life. In retrospect I should have gone with the things that looked like Coco Puffs. I also had bread with honey and Earl Grey tea. We talked for a bit, and the program-leader, Susan, said she was getting a group together for horse back riding, I was debating it because it was over 300 kcz, but really that's only like $15. We set a meeting time for about an hour and a half later. In the meantime my roommate and two or three other people walked around for a bit looking at some of the shops. We wanted to buy scarves and find where they were the cheapest. We found some for 120 kcz, which is just over $5, and I also saw really cute kind of baggy jean cutoffs with a belt, which I henceforth referred to as my sassy Czech pants.
I left that group and went back to the hotel with one of the guys to see if horseback riding was on because it was raining pretty consistently at that point. Susan decided it was raining too much and we would give it 2 hours and meet back if it cleared up at all. At this point the two of us combined groups with this other guy and his mom (who went on the trip last year and is technically a student this year but also acting like and R.A.). I also asked Susan where she said she got pants for really cheap, because my sassy Czech pants were 500 kcz and I really did not want to spend that much. She took me to the store and showed me the pants. I tried them on. It's true. I found them. I found the ever-elusive make-believe female-video-game-character low-rise tight-yet-baggy full-of-pocket pants. And how much were they? 199 kcz. 10 dollars. Oh my gosh. I had an internal struggle whether or not I wanted them. I came to the obvious conclusion. And, while I checkout, I mentioned on the the grommets on a belt loop had pulled through and asked if I could get it cheaper. 150 kcz. Seven dollars, and fifty cents. Yeah.
So we walked around some more stores with the teachers for a bit, including this soap store that had lovely pouches of lavender, then my little group of 4 broke off and decided to go to the gardens at the castle because I didn't make it on Saturday. It was really raining at this point. After a while I thought "forget it" and took my glasses off and dealt with the rain. I think I got some really great pictures, and my camera appears to be unaffected by the water. It was still pouring by the time the next horseback riding checkpoint came, so in the end I saved money and still bought pants. (I got a scarf later, more expensive than the pants but still cheap, and "Made in the Czech Republic").
We went back after a while to that place where I had the crepe on Saturday, I had another crepe, but this time one filled with cocoa. It was only 42 kcz. Delicious, I may have even liked it better than the one with ice cream. We all met back at the hotel at 6pm, I learned I missed a free gypsy concert with singing and dancing the night before when I was at my concert. I still liked the one I went to but...gypsies! We all walked to the bus stop and I am so glad to be off my feet. They feel...throbbing. And now I am dry, but during the day I was just soaked. My socks were completely soaked through my shoes, my hair was wet, I was just very...not dry. But now it's fine, my feet just hurt. Hopefully tomorrow they are fine because we go to Terezin and there will be a lot of walking. Welp! Should still be fun, the cinema class wasn't originally going to Terezin, but we weaseled our way in and are basically following the Holocaust studies class. It should be intriguing.

Our hotel room:

 The bathroom:

 Cesky Krumlov:

 Castle Gardens:

 Fountain in the Gardens:

 No guns, no drugs, no ties, no Communists: