Prague is an adventurous city! We wish we could stay here longer! Prague is known for their beer, unique liquors, street-meat, amd most importantly Old King Wenceslas! Our first day here we just walked around the city aimlessly... tried some streetmeat called the Wenceslas sausage, and it was yummy! Its basically a big sausage wrapped in bread with saurkraut and/or any sauce you want. We visited Wenceslas Square... he is the patron saint of the Czech Republic. Then we ended up at the Charles bridge to watch the sunset over the river. It was beautiful :) Our second day we went to the Prague Castle which sits on a hill overlooking Prague . There we got to tour the Old Royal Palace which is exactly how it sounds, an old baroque style castle... it was really fascinating. Then we saw St. Vitus' Cathedral which is where Wenceslas was buried and we saw his crown and sceptor! Very cool! And we visited the vineyards on the hill, which had breathtaking views :) It took the whole day to see everything so we were exhausted! We rested the remainder of the evening at our hostel, The Old Prague Hostel... which is I think our favorite hostel yet! They have free WIFI, free breakfast, a free lunch sandwich, free towels and shampoo, a kitchen, AND its located in Old Town Square which is within walking distance to everything in Prague :) So basically its AWESOME!
Today, Thursday July 7, is our last day in Prague. We went on a day trip to Kutna Hora to see the Kostnice Ossuary, which means "church of bones".... it was very cool and creepy! Its a small church that's filled and decorated with bones. This is the story as we heard it... there was a Czech man that traveled to Jerusalem on pilgrimage. He took a handful of soil from Jerusalem and brought it back to his home in Kutna Hora... he laid the soil over the foundation of what was to be a church... so then the church was built over the holy soil... when people learned of this they wanted to be buried there... so many people wanted to be buried there that the cemetery became overcrowded... thus a half-blind monk was asked to take many of the bones and decorate the church with them... its believed that there are bones of over 40,000 people in the church. Creepy!
We are now at the hostel about to eat some dinner. Then we are taking a night train to Auschwitz... we will visit it tomorrow, and then head to Berlin and then the Black Forest. This trip is blazing by and we are seeing so much in so little time. I am glad we are journaling and taking lots of pictures. We can't wait to share it all with you when we are home! We are doing really well, so thankful that God has continued to bless us with safety, good health, and overall provision. Thank you all for your prayers. Keep praying please and keep us posted on how all of you are doing back home and if there's anything we can be praying about for you. We love you and miss you very much. We'll be home in about three weeks!
Much love,
Tyler and Carmel
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