A Hezky Vikend Indeed

Bill and Ted take Lucerna

Flat mates :)

After hitting up Lucerna for some more good times on Friday night, we were not as smiley on Saturday morning, when we had a 8:45 wake-up call for our program-sponsored trip to Kunta Hora.

What is Kunta Hora? Well, we weren’t really given too many details about the trip (or if we did, I didn't get the memo), so Saturday was unexpectedly awesome.

Just chillin'

Our first stop was the bone church, which might have a slightly more official name, but basically it was built with the (real) bones of over 40,000 dead monks. Creep city. Really cool, but I felt bad for the dead monks. I do not think they ever thought that their final resting place would be in a chandelier.

Weirdd

                                                                                      

Coat of Arms for the House of Creep

After the church, we had some traditional Czech food, and then our next stop was to the actual town of Kunta Hora, where we went into a silver mine. This sounds boring, but it was actually really interesting. We got the chance to go down into the mines, but first we had to do a test run in this short little mine thing to see if we would get claustrophobic. (At this point, Bill was in a different group but she also passed the claustrophobia test and would make an excellent, or should I say awesome, miner). After we proved that we wouldn't freak out in the mine, we walked down a lot of steps and then wound our way through the mine for about 20 minutes. At one point we turned off our lamps and experienced “total mine darkness,” so that we couldn't even see our hand in front of our faces. I may or may not have used that term several times since, in various situations such as “Omg don’t turn off the lights or there will be total mine darkness,” or “Omg it got dark so quickly, it’s almost like total mine darkness.” I think it's catching on.

Rachel blazes a trail through the mine

Clearly mining is all about the outfits

Next, we walked through the town and went to Santa Barbara Church, which is the second largest church in the Czech Republic and also pretty epic.

Mom's Church :)

After getting some zmrzlina (aka ice cream what? what? look who's speaking Czech like a native), we drove back on the bus to Prague. That night was the Prague Grand Prix run, which is a night run through Prague. Even though a group of us hadn’t registered, we jumped into the race (badass), and I am so so glad that we did. Prague at night was breathtaking (and not just because I hadn’t run in a month haha ahh i crack myself up!).  The race atmosphere combined with the city lit up at night cannot be described as anything other than the bomb.com.

Even though we were too tired after the run to make it out on Saturday night for our daily dose of pivo, it was one of my favorite nights in Prague so far. Magical.

On Sunday, there was a wine festival at Troja Castle. There are tons of wine festivals in Prague during the month of September, and most have a special wine called burcak, which is "young wine," or wine that is partially fermented so it is super sweet and super alcoholic. Basically, it is the best part of September.

Troja Castle

Vineyard at the castle

Will sing for burcak

So now you might be asking yourself, omg that's so cool, will any weekend live up to this one? Umm why yes it will because bill and ted take Oktoberfest TOMORROW, and everyone will hear all about it shortly :)

O hey there, Oktoberfest