Friday, September 12, 2008

Raleigh to Prague 8/24-25/2008

Today, Kelly and I left Raleigh to fly to Prague. Mom almost didn’t cry at the airport, but she did. Duh. The plane was real cool, a lot cooler than I remember from the last time I flew on a plane that size (15 years ago). Everyone had their own TV screen in front of them and you could pick which movie you watched (I picked Ironman). The flight was real long but I was able to fall asleep.

We arrived into Heathrow early in the morning. We were about to go through customs when I realized I had thrown away my receipt for my checked luggage (Genius). I was worried for a while, but then I just talked to the customs lady and she said I just needed to tell the guy at the gate for our flight to Prague, and it was as simple as that. Sure enough when we got to Prague, my stuff got there too. When we took a van to the pension we were able to see a little bit of downtown and the Charles River. We took a little nap when we got our room, and then walked around Prague. We found a church with an extremely large clock in its façade, and a giant TV tower with sculptures of giant black faceless babies crawling on it. It’s pretty normal.

Tomorrow we begin our trip across France and Spain.

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