Poland.

For our 10 day trip we decided to go to Prague and Vienna, but on the way our buss stopped in Poland. Driving through Poland was beautiful and the buildings had a unique style. Bailey and I made our way to the bathroom at one of our stops and rand in to very nice Polish girls that helped us out. They were excited that we were from America and asked a lot of questions.

Prague, Czech Republic.

When we got to Praha it was very late and we were very tired after a 22 hour bus ride. Yet the next day we woke up early and got started on our day! We went to the Charles Bridge early in order to avoid crowds, and I am glad we did. It seemed that the place was almost magical, it was so amazing. I wish I could take a picture that could encompass the feeling of being on the bridge in Praha while the city is waking up. On our way back to our Hostel for breakfast we saw Beethoven’s house in Praha, aaand well I got pretty excited lol. We went back to the Hostel and filled up on an awesome breakfast and made some friends from all over aaand with beards lol. This hostel was awesome! Everything in the hostel was bought at an antique shop except the beds and sheets. After a fun chess game, we went to Dr. Fanz Kofka’s grave at the Jewish cemetery. Bailey and Ariel wanted to go to his museum while Janese and I went to the music museum. Now this music museum was pretty cool, it pretty much had every instrument you could think of and more. I felt like I was a little kid in a play ground but I could not play on it! I wanted to play the instruments yet I was not allowed lol. The next best thing was to listen to them, so they had head phones that would play some songs. One time I was listening and I started dancing my head around and looking at all the instruments when one of the old guy workers made eye contact and laughed a little at me a little lol, he was my friend J. After our little music adventure we went to see a very old wax baby Jesus that nuns would change its clothes, yeahhhhh idk what that is about lol. After, we headed over to St. Nicolas’s church were we heard a beautiful choir’s song ring through the walls and out the doors. Then we went to the palace where it was located on a high hill and IT WAS BEAUTIFUL! Later we adventured through a huge park around the castle and I was able to see the top of the whole city. Then we found a communist memorial and had a quick visit to the ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire building. I just have to say that there are way too many attractive men in Praha! Lol just saying. The next day we went to see the powder tower and the awesome clock tower! This clock tower is one of my favorites because I had learned about it in my astronomy classes. We go a pig leg in the square and watched the top of the hour show that the astronomical clock does. After this, we went to the Jewish museum where there were children’s drawing that the Nazis would show the people to make others think that the children were in good hands and were happy. Yet, after seeing the art I almost cried because in my opinion the drawings served the opposite purpose. The art showed a window in to their tortured young minds, I almost cried… I would just like to say ART IS IMPORTANT! There I got it out lol. This leads me to my next event, which is the national art museum. I LOVED seeing Jacob Schikaneder’s art! His paintings were so beautiful and the way he captures light is inspiring. Most of his paintings are about older woman’s ordinary lives in Russia. It seemed to me that most of his paintings were focused on shadows and light. My favorite paintings of his were the ones of the ocean, they were just grand. There were beautiful gardens located outside of the museum so we went in to them and found out they were the senate gardens. I felt like I was Alice in Wonderland, they were so beautiful. Yet, one wall located in a far corner of the gardens was an ugly gray thing with monster faces hidden in it, this wall is what they called the Grotto or the dilating wall. I found out that this wall was made to intimidate an enemy. For example, if there was meant to be a meeting with an enemy than they would have it next to that wall so as to intimidate them. Next we all went to the Loretta church were two very esteemed nuns were buried. I didn’t have enough money to go in so I sat outside and drew a picture of it J. After we all got some food in us we decided to go see the Charles bridge at sunset aaaand is was amazing, I will just let you see the pictures I took from the view of the bridge.

If there was one thing I learned from Praha, it’s that art is great! 

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” 
― Pablo Picasso