The first day we just walked around a LOT, got lost in the city, explored the Jewish Quarter, enjoyed the wonderful, and acted like, well, tourists. Here I am in Old Towne Square:
Blake thinks long and hard about converting:
The lilacs were lovely this time of year. Just like Blake all year (awwww...):
For dinner we went to this really cool beer garden that we could hear when we walked outside the hotel, so we knew it would be fun. It was fun, except for the worst service we have ever had. But it was cute:
After we were finally served dinner we walked around some more in good ole safe Prague.
Blake took a cool pic of the castle that we were going to the next day:
The next day we went to visit the big ole castle that looms mysteriously over the city:
We played the tourist card again and got the audioguide. Blake gets his learn on:
We took an evening train (2 hours) from there to Dresden to meet up with Blake's sister Giselle. She meet us at the train station and took us to have dinner with her friend, Hano, who cooked an absolutely amazing meal. It was awesome.
The next morning Giselle had to go to practice, so Blake and I explored Dresden on her own. Dresden was suprisingly really cute and there was quite a bit to see. The city was flattened in WW2, and they have rebuilt a lot of the important buildings. They tried to use a lot of the original bricks, which makes for a cool effect:
We went up to the top of the Residenzschloss to get a great view of the city. We could see the Semperoper where Giselle was going to be performing that night:
We spent some time at the Zwinger Schloss where we were able to get a nice, memorable picture of the 2 of us:
No, but really, Zwinger Palace was quite pretty:
After a hard day of sight-seeing, we went back to Giselle's apartment to get all gussied up so that we wouldnt embarrass her at the show.
The show was awesome, but unfortunately we couldnt get any great photos of her dancing, but here she is getting an applause:
While we were waiting for Giselle after the show, I snapped a few cool pics of the Semperoper and the surrounding area:
Since it was a Premiere of the show, they had a huge after-party that we were able to attend. They are sponsored by a German beer company, so it was all the beer you could drink, which is funny considering most of the dancers dont drink beer.
The next day we had brunch, and then Blake and I had to catch a bus to Berlin (about 3 hours) to catch our plane back to Stockholm. It was great though, because some of our old friend's from Lund, Ralf and Rapheal, who live in Berlin were able to meet up with us for a couple beers. It was probably the perfect way to end our trip!
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