Day 8-9: There's Mutha F*ckin' Snakes in the Mutha F*ckin' Museum

So, we got into Prague (Praha) around 10AM yesterday morning. Les was basically having a terrible time at this whole life thing we had going. I have never seen someone blow there nose that much in my entire life (I'm talking like 100's of tissues...no joke. I'm pretty sure he's keeping kleenex or whatever their czech counterpart is in business).

I'm pretty sure he caught herpes...stupid dirty prostitutes in amsterdam. I guess that's what he gets for putting so many through college. But seriously, herpes of the nose? How the hell did that happen? Well...I guess it could have been the plague or something as well. Either way, he was looking/feeling/acting/being like shit :-D We tried to take it kind of easy, so he wouldn't get any more sick.

Unfortunately even after a rather long transit from the airport, we still got to the hostel like two hours early. So we only could drop off our bags and go wander around till 2. We first began our search for some sort of medicine for my now extremely sickly companion, and we came to realize that there are no places to get medicine on the weekend. If you get sick in prague, you better damn make sure its during the week otherwise you are really screwed. We ended up going to this ghetto (the norm in this local apparently) department store and grabbing lunch. Lunch wasn't bad or good, but Les was in serious need of some food in his stomach so it was good for him.

Then we wandered around and happened into the touristy square here. There is a cool clock and a sex machine museum (I chuckled when I saw this). It was getting about 2, so we headed back. We got all checked in and took a nap. Les was doing his best to die...but he couldn't even do that right. LAME!!! We finally met some cool people in the hostel because our roommate was kind enough to share some of her medicine with Les, which was greatly appreciated.

We headed down to the hostel common room to watch the England vs. Portugal game. Nothing exciting...you know the outcome or can read about it (other than the fact england was sucking more than Les's immune system). After the game, we headed out with some kids from the hostel to grab some dinner. Again nothing too terribly special, but the beer was uber cheap. Les got some goulasch as did I. The stuff I had in Germany was better, but here they have potato pancakes and funky dumplings (just clumps of bread stuck together).
Beer Report:
Bernard Pivo (10%) - Les 1, Ted 1
Bernard Pivo (17%) - Ted 1

We came back and watched the Brazil/France game and then headed to bed.

The next morning we woke up and got ready by 11 or so. First thing we did was head to the nearest pastry shop for some czech delicious treats...apparently they don't believe in delicious here because mine sucked. Les's was a standard cinnamon bun, so it was a safe bet and he had better results. Also before I left the states, I printed the locations of all of the Cisco offices in all of the cities we were staying in. I looked up the one in prague and its like 1/5 of a mile away from our hostel, so we decided to go this morning and get ourselves some free beverages. After flashin' the badge at the front desk, we were in. I scanned my badge and we got into the office no problem. We got some drinks and a took some letterhead with the Czech address to take back to the office.

After enjoying the spoils of our adventure, we started our walking tour south. We started near the northwestern part of the central prague area, and we walked down the river here. This city is beautiful. Everywhere you turn there is another awesome building to take pictures of. We walked down to the Charles bridge (the main pedestrian/tourist bridge here) and headed to Wenceslas sqaure for lunch. We failed at this terribly and ended up going to the grocery store (and Les pointed out that it is apparently against the law for these to be located above ground or with easily accessible entrances) so we wandered around looking for that stupid place. Lunch supplies in hand, we went by the national museum and ate. After food, we went into the museum, which was completely awesome. They had a huge exhibit of minerals and gemstones. A section of prehistorical crap. This really, really awesome traveling exhibit on asian silk, which had some amazing silk embroidered painting looking things. The detail was crazy. Upstairs they had a bunch of fossils and stuffed animals. They had a skeleton of this huge fin whale that was just crazy. They had every animal we could think of including all of freak animals that no one ever talks about. There was also a bunch of human remains showing different diseases, which was somewhat creepy. I was trying to guess which one Les had based off of the deformed skulls and stuff. I tried to cut off his skin to look at his skull so I could compare, but he was being a really big sissy and just wouldn't let me look.

This was a really awesome place, and I recommend you swing by if you're in the area. But I guess you aren't because you're reading this blog instead...burn. Booyah.

After the museum, we wandered down south to more prague sites. A cool church in the remains of an old castle. Some other random building and statues here and there. Just awesome all around.

Then we grabbed some dinner (food wasn't that great but the beer was good and CHEAP).
- Staropramen 10% - Ted 1
- Staropramen 12% - Les 1
- Staropramen Granat Polotmave Pivo - Ted 1

Then we headed home and just chatted with our hostel mates. That about sums up our first two days in prague (granted our summary abilities seem to be getting worse and worse with each post...but if you wanna keep complaining then stop reading our blog you big winny turd...yeah...you wanna fight about it...hold me back Les).

Peace,
Ted

Notes about Prague:
- Beer is stupid cheap, 25 czech dollars which is like 1 dollar for 0.5 liters.
- Women seem to dress like strippers (not particulary attractive ones), and men like douches. I don't seem to understand.

Quote(s) of the Day:
T (discussing Les's disease): Hey Les, have you had your measles shot?
L: You mean my MMR? Yeah, I had it and I got even more shots before I went to Ecquador like yellow fever and typhoid.
T: I don't even know what yellow fever is. Is it like when you get the hots for asian women?
L: Yeah, similar to the better known jungle fever.

L: That is a sweet crystalline structure right there (insert glare from me)...yeah I said it.