Prague

I tried to write a message on here when we were in vienna but the computer screwed up and erased the whole thing.

We left Melissa in Florence, the day before Melissa and I went and saw the leaning tower of Pisa and then went and wandered around for a while. We found this other little church and went in and nobody was in there but the organ player. So we sat in there for a while and listened. It was really amazing to hear a large organ in a huge church. Then we got back on the train and went back to Florence to meet Lauren. We went and saw the Duomo and the Santa Maria Novela church. Both were beautiful and have alot of gold leafing, mosaics and paintings. We all decided to head back to the hostle early and we sat on the top balcony and read our books under a setting tuscan sun. I got some great pictures of the landscape. It was very beautiful where we were staying. Lauren and I slept in the next day and then packed up our tent and got on the train for Venice. when we got there we droped off our bags and then went on and ferry bus ride of the grand cannal. Venice has to be the most beautiful of the cities I've seen. It has little cannals going everywhere and all along the banks there are great palaces. We went to one of the main piazzas and fed some pigieons ( they would land on your arms and shoulders trying to get at the feed) and then wandered around for a couple hours. We ended up sitting in a riverside cafe and drinking some wine and watched the boats at night. The only thing that I would have to get used to there is the smell. The water isn't the nicest smelling stuff in the world. We had a train that left at 1 in the morning for Vienna. So we are to wait at the train station. I had a little scare when I forgot my eurail pass in the washroom and had to run back and get it. Luckly it was late and there wasn't many people there. Now it's gluded to me. We sleped in this little sleeper car on the train, it wasn't the most comfortable sleep and I woke up alot but it got us to Vienna. We decided to go and check our e-mail there and we had a little scare when Lauren thought Petr, her cousin, had made us a reservation for a hotel in Prague that we really couldn't afford. Luckly it was just that his english was not that good and he had just given us that impression. Also we had gotten a day ahead of ourselves and thought that he had made the reservation for that night, and that there could have been a cancelation fee. But there was nothing to be worried about and we sent an e-mail to the hotel just incase he had made a reservation to cancel it. we then wandered around a bit more went to another church and then got on another train to Prague. We weren't sure if we were going to find accomodations here but this little lady came to us at the train station and offered. Her place is so cute and tiny, there are a couple of other people staying there but we still have our own little room. Everything is really cheap and we have breakfast included and a washing machine so we can actually not smell bad. The lady is so cute because she can't speak very good english but rather a mixture of german english and Czech to us. I'm going to take a pickture of the mall paper in the place cause it is the the funniest stuff you have ever seen. It's orangy red and floral and it's EVERYWHERE. Including the celings. Either that or fake brick wall paper. She brought us breakfast which was bread and jam and these little containers of meat stuff that Lauren and I don't really want to try.

Anyhoo, Petr has e-mailed lauren back and says that we can stay in his brothers house for free tomorrow night and then the next night I'm on a overnight train to come back to frankfurt for my plane home.

Hope everyone is really good at home, I miss everyone. especially my cat!
See everyone soon
LOVE AND HUGS
KELSEY!