Day 3: Dresden - Prague

Hello All!
Today we went to Dresden and then to Prague in Czech Republic. We are at a hotel called the “Hotel Duo.” It has a bowling alley and a swimming pool, both which you have to pay to use. Since this country has high inflation, one CAD dollar is 15.00 Korun, or 22 Korun to 1 Euro. It’s quite nice.

I’ve been dying without Maverick working, so today we walked to a supermark called “Kauflundt” pronounced “Cow-flunt.” There I got yelled at by many non-english speaking employees, and still couldn’t find a battery-powered fan. I settled with buying a highdryer with a “cool” setting, some tape that was the closest thing to duct tape and brought it back. Here we have the “cool” setting taped on, the high dryer wedged between two dressers near the floor so the semi-warm heat will be near cold by the time it reaches the laptop fan (placed over the hole between the dressers). So far it’s working… but I’ve got this nervous feeling that Maverick will just shut off – oh well.

At least this way I can use my laptop while we’re indoors, although I really don’t have internet access, so this will be posted probably when I’m in another area.

AND, FINALLY we can all upload our pictures onto the laptop (since we’ve tried uploading Gregg’s pictures about 4 times and had it die half way through.) Right now we’re at: 223 of 496. I’ll upload some and maybe try and find a place with better internet, if not, then that’s fine.

I’ll just give you a little details on our day so far: Day: 3; Berlin-Dresden-Prague.

We were all up at 6:00am to get ready to leave at 8:00am. I was extremely tired, and almost didn’t make it for when the bus was leaving (because I was trying to continue uploading pictures from Gregg’s camera before I set up this quick-fix solution. If you’re wondering, it didn’t work, and we were still late).

From there it was a 2hour bus ride to Dresden, and it was cold and snowing. We walked around the town, went into a beautiful cathedral (which people were taking pictures although they were NOT supposed to, which was REALLY frustrating) and then went to the Zwinger Museum. The Zwinger Museum holds a lot of art from over the decades, lots of tapestries and large paintings with biblical or greek backgrounds. We also went to a little café where Emily ordered her food in German:
It sounds like this (not spelt this way though):
Ich merckha kakow undt deec
= I would like hot chocoluate and this (croissant).

Although the ladies didn’t reply in German to me because I’m assuming they are snobs, I did enjoy myself.

They town was freezing – well, most of Europe has been exceptionally cold. We’ve so far had: snow, hail, rain, wind, sun and cloudy days. The wind is so great that I’m sure the new umbrella I bought for all the rain is now broken. =\ Quite unfortunate. From there we had another 3 hours until Prague. Most of us fell asleep against each other, and I got mad fun of because I switched positions quite a few times. In my defense, it is extremely hard to be comfortable on a bus – but let’s just forget it, =b.

SUCCESS! Finally Gregg’s photos have uploaded and we can call this mission a success. I’ve very excited and hey! If this stops working, Marilyn can have a new hairdryer – my gift to her. Ahaha.

We had a scare about someone losing a passport, but it got resolved. Jen or Dad, if you are reading this, don’t worry, mine is ALWAYS in my pants, so I’m sure to know if someone is getting it (and we all know how tight I wear my pants, it will take plyers to even come close to taking my passport). Ahaha.

Anyways, we arrived here around 6:30pm – had dinner at 7:00pm. I believe I had some coconut because I had a LARGE stomach ache and had a quick power nap. We then walked to the supermarket, I tried for about 20 minutes to phone home, but it just doesn’t work here. I guess internet will just have to do for you (family) because there is nothing I can do. Sorry sorry sorry.

Anyways, that’s it, more pictures to come! (I bought some nice clothes too, I’m quite fashionable, or at least I’d like to think =b)

Gros Bisous!
-Emily