Arrived in Prague

To keep with the theme of the trip, I'm running a bit late with posting again.  Even the last post I finally put up last night was actually written on the train ride here... All I had to was copy/paste the entry online.  Oops.  I guess that shows we're having a good time and keeping busy.  I'm going with that instead of laziness :)

We got into Prague at a decent time and immediately got some czks out of the ATM.  The conversion rate here is about 1 USD = 16 Czech koruny (although that's what it was for the past couple days, at the actual time of the writing it seems to be about 1 to 17).  From there we walked to our hotel, which took a little longer than expected.  We had a couple wrong turns, but finally honed in on the right path.  The hotel we are at in Prague is very hip/swank.  We both like it a lot.  The concierge walked us up to our room and showed us around.  After the long walk and long day of travel, the extra effort by the staff was very refreshing.  Fregly and Christina also seemed to have some difficulty finding their hotel, but seemed to get to theuirs about the same time as us.  Nick and Gabrielle ended staying very close to our hotel and it was pretty easy to meet up with everyone.

Nick and Gabrielle seemed to be really enjoying their day head start and filled us in a much as they could before calling it a night and getting ready for their flight in the morning.  They found a pub right across the street from us that is own by a guy from Chicago!  And they show US sports too!  They have college football on while we were there and are holding out hope for the Bears game too!  We found one more similar theme from the other cities here too... the beer here is much better than when it is imported to the States!  I think Pilsner Urquell back home is pretty bad (much like Heineken, it tastes skunky to me), but here its quite good.

We didn't stay out too late and everyone was ready too pass out.  We had one complication though while trying to sleep... there was very loud techno music coming from a nearby disco, and that made it a bit hard to get a steady nights' sleep.  But eventually we were able to fall asleep and start the next day.