Praha - first few days (March 7th)

After a very stressful and hectic midterms week, it was time for spring break!! Me and my two roommates -Kathleen and Katelin made plans to go to Prague and Amsterdam several weeks before. Kathleens birthday was this Saturday, and so was Gina's, so Gina decided to meet us in Prague for literally a day to have a double birthday bash! My roommates left on Fri March 6th, but I booked my plane ticket for Sat because it was twice as cheap. So me - the girl who gets lost everywhere - decided to travel to a country all by myself. I had to take the bus, a train to Rome, then from Rome a train to the airport, and then from the airport a bus to the hostel. Crazy right! I made it in one piece and managed to not even get lost...well maybe a little. I had to ask a bunch of people for directions though. I also discovered that i now have a phobia of flying from my traumatizing flight to Florence in January. When the plane started to take off to Prague, I started tearing up a little because i was so scared. And then when it was landing, i was asleep so it wasn't too bad. Our plane had a huge group of Italian highschoolers who were being very obnoxious. THey were screaming during take-off and cheering and yelling through out the whole flight...which didn't really help my phobia. Oh and when I got to Prague, and I had to take the metro to the hostel I didn't really know which direction to take it so I just jumped on a train and asked some random old man if I'm going the right way in English. He didn't understand me so I changed to Russian...and he was like.."oy ti Ruskaya da?" And I was hesitant to say yes because I heard they don't reeally like Russians there. But he was very very nice, and helped me out. He also wished me to have a very great trip.
So I finally met up with my roommates and Gina at the hostel and we decided to get some sushi that was right around the corner. Gina and I walked in there and looked at the menu and it was waaaay overpriced. California rolls for like 20 Euro. We thought we would be eating like kings in Prague since 1 Euro is equal to 28 in Czech money. Talk about inflation! We decided to look for another place to eat but every restaurant we passed the menu was in Czech and we couldn't understand it at all. We were trying to look for a place that had English translations and we finally found one. But it was pretty much like a diner with American food.
After dinner we decided to go crazy since we had two birthday girls who just turned 21! First, we went to a local bar right next to our hotel. The drinks were extremely cheap so we just chilled there for a bit. Then around 12:30 we hit up the discotech, which is supposed to be the best in Prague. The discotech was sooooo much fun. The DJ was incredible...it was American music (but really good american music you could actually dance to). And the most surprising thing was that noneof the guys were being sleezy. They were just minding their own business. so us girls were just having a ball dancing and not having to worry about anyone disrupting our time. Gina had to catch the plane at around 6 am, so we ended up leaving around 3:30 so she could get a taxi to the airport. On the walk back Katelin and I were walking behind Gina and Kathleen and all of a sudden we lost them because we didn't see them turn a corner. Katelin and I didn't really know where we were going and everything looks so different at night..After a while we found our hostel, but we were too embarrassed to tell Kathleen and Gina what happened to us, so we just said we stopped by at a bathroom and that I had to tie my shoe. We decided to sleep in the next day...