Well... This will be the last time I'll be writing in Prague. We leave tomorrow (actually later today) for Cesky Krumlov. We're going to spend 2 nights there and then it's off to Salzburg. We have 2 nights there then we go to Venice and leave for home from there.
As sad as I am that I'm leaving (I didn't know it then, but I was sadder than I ever could have imagined), I think I'll be ready to go home. I want to see my family and friends. I can't wait to tell everyone about my experiences and show them pictures. Even 2 years later, I still get excited about talking about my experiences abroad. This experience has been SO good for me. It's given me a lot of clarity on how I want to live my life I guess. I like not having to answer to anybody and being independent from others.
I don't know what that might say about my situation with Travis but I think I need to let him know that. I still want to wait and see how I feel when I see him. I hope, for his sake, he feels the same. Come to find out, he had much stronger feelings for me than I had for him and I totally broke his heart and our friendship has suffered greatly unfortunately. I don't want to look like the bad guy (too late) IF I break up with him. Whatever. It try no to think about it too much.
Back to my trip. We leave for Cesky Krumlov where we will be able to swim in the river. Also, there's a historical motorcycle museum there. I don't know why it's there but I want to check it out. We are also going to the Egon Schiele museum. He was an artist in the "impressionist" period. I put quotes around impressionist now because my Art History teacher described the "impressionists" as more "realists" because they painted exactly what they saw rather than painting from an image or posed model they saw. So that would be cool.
Salzburg will be fun because we'll be in the birthplace of Mozart. I think we're going to see his grave as well but I don't know. I really felt like an idiot when I realized that he's burried in Vienna in a massive grave with like 100 other people.
Today I went up to Vysehrad and thought it was so pretty. It was very quiet and tranquil, which I liked very much. In fact, when I need to calm down, I turn on Smetana's "Ma Vlast" and listen to "Vysehrad" and envision the long, windy road that lead me through the tunnels and up staircases and past buildings that eventually lead me to the quiet park just outside the basilica. The first pic is of the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Vysehrad compound. There's a cemetery up there where a lot of Czechoslovakia's kings and dignitaries are burried. The 2 most famous Czech composers, Biedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak are burried up there as well.
There is also a basilica up there. It's the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul. I thought it was very pretty inside because it's mainly a gothic (acutally neo-gothic) building but the art on the ceilings (seems to be) art-nouveau. That was kind of ironic. The altar piece was very exquisite and I made sure that I bought a postcard of it because we were not allowed to take photographs inside.
We went out to dinner tonight @ the restaurant where we had our first meal in Prague together and that was nice. Last night, everyone (including the older people) went on a boat ride down the Vltava River the second pic is of Prague Castle at sunset on this boatride. I had a couple of beers (these beers were 1/2 a liter each!) and then we decided to go to a bar after the boat ride and I got drunk for the first time. I'll never forget the drunken bus ride home where I kept trying to tell Lance that I needed to pee like Tycho Brahe in a quiet tone but basically yelling across the bus to him. Then there was the english speaking fellow that thought I was absolutely hilarious and having to be carried up and down stairs as well as striking up a conversation with a drunk British couple, LOL. I didn't blackout or anything but there were a few things that I needed to be reminded of today like "angry fist" pictures that I took with Ryan at the bus stop (see pic #3). That was fun but I don't think I'll do it again because I made a spectacle of myself. Anyway, that's it for now I guess!
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