A Beautiful Weekend (a real blog post, for once)

It's winter!!!

Winter has begun! and Breanne and I bought a 2-day pass for the Prague Castle Museums, so this has been an actually interesting weekend at home.
Yesterday we had a relaxed breakfast, then took a tram up to the castle and learned about the history of Czech royalty in the "Story of the Castle" exhibit. We then visited the Romanesque basilica of St.George... and when we came out it was hailing/raining and so very cold!

the gargoyles were breathing icicles... so cold!

We didn't have umbrellas or rainproof coats (although all the czech people did, and were not surprised by the sudden change in weather..) so we ran to the tram and were very very wet by the time we got home. But we put on some dry clothes and made dinner... fish sticks and rice and green beans. mmm comfort food.

This morning we woke up and there was a dusting of snow on the cars on the streets. Snow really doesn't stick on the streets... but you can get the idea and that's what counts.

the view out our window onto the fresh morning snow

Then I turned in my second article for the paper - it's about the student council President and honestly I have just lost interest... but I'm glad that's finally done.

We returned to the castle and visited the portrait gallery and national gallery, full of all the most famous Czech paintings. It was so nice and culture-y. And we also toured the palace, home of the great big royal ballroom thing (also where they threw people out the windows during revolutions, but no big...).

isn't this room nice? not bad to be royalty...

Then as we left the museums to go home... it was snowing!!! So beautiful!

St.Vitus Cathedral, in the beautiful wintertime

Cassie, Ali, Breanne and I made a big "breakfast for dinner" (ok, they cooked and I dj'd...) and listened to Christmas carols.

Ellie, cooking up some potatoes

You can find my youtube playlist for the evening here... it was an 'eclectic variety' (we don't have the comcast cable music channels, so we have to make it up). I call the mix "Christmas at Home: when home is full of weird college-aged girls who have been away from America for 3 months."
Billy Idol's music video for "Jingle Bell Rock" was probably the biggest hit, although the animated gifs in the "feliz navidad" video we found were PRETTY FANTASTIC. And if you've never seen the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of "Little Drummer Boy".. prepare yourself.

After dinner Ali, Cassie and I took a nice walk around town and saw everything dusted with snow... the ol' Jan Hus statue, astronomical clock, Charles bridge, churches, Winceslas square... it's a whole different city now.

good ol' Jan Hus... all covered in snow

What a nice night... but I miss my family and all our traditions at home. I will miss thanksgiving... but won't Christmas be great!!!

Love!! Please leave comments if you can!

(if you want to see the rest of the pictures I've been taking here in hometown prague... here is the place: link)