Last days in Prague

Oh man.  So having been in Jordan for a couple of days now my time in Prague is already fading, guess I better write about it.  First and foremost, my roommates were two of the coolest people I've met traveling ever.  Oliva and Luke reminded me of an Australian version of my friends Mollie Grewe and Will Thomas.  It was refreshing to find out that there are such like-minded people on the other side of the planet.  The day before they left we started a tour of Prague together, which ended up being surprisingly cool.  Our tour guide was an Irish firecracker, and I learned all about the history of the Czech people.  It's insane how many times their government has been overthrown and reformulated!  I wish I could go through each picture and describe for you what I learned, but it would take hours.  If you're as interested as I am, however, let me know and I'd love to tell about any of the things I've seen.  I saw some beautiful architecture.  After the tour I took it easy for a while, then headed out for a drink with Olivia and Luke.

The next day my new friends left, and I decided to go for a paddleboat trip on the Vlatava organized by the hostel.  Only one other person went on the trip- it was nice but didn't really amount to more than a few more views of things I'd already taken pictures of.  After that I reluctantly debated going on a bar crawl, and ultimately decided to stay in for the night and get an early start on my Museum day.

My last day in Prague I visited the Communist museum, the Biedrich Smetana Museum, and the Museum of Natural History.  All of them were "innaresting", but I was particularly amazed at the Museum of Natural History.  I've never seen a larger collection of taxidermied animals (ones I never even knew existed).

Then I left Prague, and things turned to shit again.  The airline lost my freakin luggage, and it's been 2 days now.  I bought some real awesome cheap clothes on the streets of Irbid.  Tune in tomorrow for more of the scoop on Jordan.

Visual highlights:

Olivia and Luke (Australian Mollie and Will) in an underground pub

Night shot of the National Theater, according to the Czechs it has "the best acoustics of any theater in the world"

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Paddleboatin'.  Saw lots of dead birds in the Moldau. 

Then after having spent some time on the Moldau, I hung out with Mr. Smetana (composer of The Moldau symphonic poem, one of my favorite pieces)

Lenin!  Gotta love communism monuments...

Me and an anteater at the Museum of Natural History

For more pics check out my Picasa album.