Here, There, Around the Square

Honestly, the travel to Prague was about as easy as it could possibly have been.  Flights were roughly on time; airline food was less delicious than the flight attendant suggested, but certainly passable; and customs was straightforward.  Becky even thought ahead and set up an airport transfer, so there was a guy waiting for us with our names on a sign - may have to repeat that one in the future, as it was so low stress, and pretty cheap.

The Czech Republic is not on the Euro, so to do the conversion, we lop of the last digit of the price and divide by two (roughly).  I've been kind of blown away by how reasonable everything has been, from food/alcohol to transit to excursion-type activities.  Highly recommend.

After checking into our hotel, we crashed for a few hours and then ventured out for a late-ish lunch (Indian, delicious).  We're staying across from a Metro stop, so we got 72-hour passes and headed into the city.  Recognizing that we hadn't talked about a plan or anything like that, we opted to walk around the Old Town Square for a while, see the Astronomical Clock in motion, hike up to the Prague Castle (not open, but we walked around the complex), and then wander for a while to get our bearings.  We also bought tickets for a concert - the Classical Spectacular Concert in the Tyn Church - and Afrikania, which is a black light show (more information to follow on that one).

By the time 7:00 rolled around, we were starting to fade, and it was starting to rain, so we took the Metro back to our hotel, arriving just in time to watch the Blackhawks-Flyers Global Series Exhibition Game (also in Prague, tickets were outrageous).  While the hawks were not ultimately victorious, I'm pretty happy that we're back to hockey season.

Tomorrow's an exciting (and more planned) day!