Sorry I am a few days late posting, I have been a bit under the weather.
On Friday I went to the zoo with 3 other people from class. We took the metro then hopped on a bus and ended up at the zoo around 10am. The tickets were 150 kcz for students, so $7.50. Not too shabby!
There were a lot of different kinds of birds that I have never seen in American zoos, so that was pretty cool. There were also hippos and zebras and reptile enclosures like all zoos. My favorite part was the nocturnal area that had bush babies and these amazing animals called spring hares. http://library.thinkquest.org/5053/Africa/springhare.jpg
They were like bunny/kangaroo/tyrannosaurus rex/jackrabbits. My camera is amazing so I was able to get pictures even though the enclosure was really dark. I think this is my new favorite animal. Ever.
The weather was mostly good all day, but it did get hot at some points. There were two major sections to the zoo, and the upper section could be accessed by a gondola thing, or by walking up a really big hill. None of us wanted to pay for the gondola, so we all got a pretty good workout for the day.
We stopped for lunch/snacks at one point and I saw that the menu offered nachos. Now, I have been craving nachos for a while now so I got really excited. I ordered them; turns out, it was just a bag of chips. Barbecue chips of all things. I got ice cream to make myself feel better.
After the zoo we grabbed pizza on the way back. There is this amazing pizza place near our dorms, they make the pizzas fresh so it is always warm and delicious. It's just over $5 for a 42cm pizza.
Anyway, when we got back Ali, Kelly, and I decided we wanted to go to the Old Town Square and listen to a Brazilian music concert before the Euro Cup game, and then go to a jazz club/festival thing. While we were getting ready we got a call from another student about a dinner that was being made by a previous student who is planning on moving to Prague to open a restaurant. Ali wanted to go so our group of 6 went by the teacher dorms on the way to the Old Town Square. 3 decided to stay for the dinner and the rest of us went to the concert, Ali, Kelly, and I were going to meet up later for the jazz thing. Unfortunately the guy did the dinner in a really fancy way, so he timed out the courses and the time in between, so they were there for over 2 hours. When they didn't show up to Old Town Square the 3 of us that went to the concert just got ice cream and headed back to the dorms.
I walked around for a bit that night because a lot of the town is really pretty with all of the lights. The Charles Bridge is probably my favorite place at night because of how the light reflects in the water.
Friday night is when I went to bed with a runny nose; stupid allergies.
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