lundi, février 28, 2005
we're totally in Prague, man
So last night Pammy and I watched the Oscars. Accounting for the time change, you should know that that means we were up until about 6:00 AM local time...! Not 'cause we were partying - we were just awake. We're totally not time-zone adjusted, man.
So we woke up around 2:00 this afternoon and were like, shit! it's 2:00! We're determined to get ourselves time-adjusted tonight.
Let's see, what have we done. The long flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was actually quite bearable, due to the lovely technological advance of personal televisions for each passenger, which served as personal VCRs, gaming system, and map tracking device. I watched The Forgotten with Julianne Moore, and played some Mah-jong. I liked the movie. Pammy watched Sideways, which was edited and censored, but still quite amusing, and she played "Bejeweled". The seats are equipped with remote controls which doubled as (I wanna say "joystick")... game... device-thingys.....?
Our hotel is good. We laughed when our taxi dropped us off yesterday, because right across the street, with bright yellow signage, is "Erotic City". The big bold signs advertise all sorts of things, but the ones that made me laugh were "spanking" and "piss". Piss?? I don't want to know..!
We've been making an effort to check with the locals, like the friendly front-desk girl at our hotel and our waitress at TGI Fridays (don't ask) about good places to check out locally. We're interested in visiting places that aren't too tourist-y (a LOT is geared towards tourists here), and I think we've got a good list. Of course, we are definitely interested in doing some of the tourist stuff like walking across the Charles Bridge and visiting Prague Castle, which we plan to do tomorrow.
What I love the most are the very narrow streets with tall OLD buildings surrounding you everywhere. Our hotel is right in "Old Town" (Stare Mesto), so we're really within walking distance of a lot of cool stuff, and we've been out walking quite a bit already. I also really like the Czech language (despite it making NO sense to me) - after our very short stint in Amsterdam and listening to Dutch for a bit, Czech sounds a lot prettier to me. The only word we've used very much is "dekuji" ("dekoo-ey"), which means "thank you". Thankfully, most everyone on the service end of things speaks English, so we're not struggling with communication issues.
Oh yeah. Pammy and I are sharing a bed.
Stay tuned... | ¶ 8:24 p.m.
So we woke up around 2:00 this afternoon and were like, shit! it's 2:00! We're determined to get ourselves time-adjusted tonight.
Let's see, what have we done. The long flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was actually quite bearable, due to the lovely technological advance of personal televisions for each passenger, which served as personal VCRs, gaming system, and map tracking device. I watched The Forgotten with Julianne Moore, and played some Mah-jong. I liked the movie. Pammy watched Sideways, which was edited and censored, but still quite amusing, and she played "Bejeweled". The seats are equipped with remote controls which doubled as (I wanna say "joystick")... game... device-thingys.....?
Our hotel is good. We laughed when our taxi dropped us off yesterday, because right across the street, with bright yellow signage, is "Erotic City". The big bold signs advertise all sorts of things, but the ones that made me laugh were "spanking" and "piss". Piss?? I don't want to know..!
We've been making an effort to check with the locals, like the friendly front-desk girl at our hotel and our waitress at TGI Fridays (don't ask) about good places to check out locally. We're interested in visiting places that aren't too tourist-y (a LOT is geared towards tourists here), and I think we've got a good list. Of course, we are definitely interested in doing some of the tourist stuff like walking across the Charles Bridge and visiting Prague Castle, which we plan to do tomorrow.
What I love the most are the very narrow streets with tall OLD buildings surrounding you everywhere. Our hotel is right in "Old Town" (Stare Mesto), so we're really within walking distance of a lot of cool stuff, and we've been out walking quite a bit already. I also really like the Czech language (despite it making NO sense to me) - after our very short stint in Amsterdam and listening to Dutch for a bit, Czech sounds a lot prettier to me. The only word we've used very much is "dekuji" ("dekoo-ey"), which means "thank you". Thankfully, most everyone on the service end of things speaks English, so we're not struggling with communication issues.
Oh yeah. Pammy and I are sharing a bed.
Stay tuned... | ¶ 8:24 p.m.
