Arrived in Prague!

We just got into our hostel in Prague and I'm already in love with it. Free interenet, breakfast included and until 11am, nice front desk person, informative website, etc. The train ride from Berlin was about 5 hours. Our last morning in Berlin was not very exciting, just packing and being shooed out by the owners of the hostel.

Yesterday we had a lazy start to the day; since we didn't get back until after 3 we slept in. Our first stop was the Pergamon museum (which we did't get to until about 4pm....). It is almost entirely about Babylon, with some old Greek and Roman stutues thrown in. The whole place was split into 2 sections, one on the truth of Babylon and one on the myth. In the truth section was a copy of Hammurabi's code, which was cool for me to see since the original was not in the Louvre when I went. But I enjoyed the myth section more, lots of painting of the tower of Babel, confusion of tongues, etc. Some other interesting exhibits were there too...and were sort of related to Babylon. One was a series of tabloid covers concerning Saddam Hussein all framed and with glitter randomly sprayed on. Upon reading the description beside the exhibit we learned that it was the artist's own semen holding the glitter on.... Another one was a lego concentration camp. One guy took a bunch of different lego sets and made his own concentration camp, crematorium (sp?), etc. He used a lot of skeletons from the pirate lego set. We spent about 4 hours in the museum and then headed back where we had dinner the night before. Steve and I got out last currywurst and Adam and Angela revisited the falafel cafe. After dinner we walked around the neighborhood seeing a vibrant art community/compound with tons of artist exhibitions/shops. Then we also walked by the large synogogue (sp?), which was very pretty (huge gold Star of David on top) but it was too late to go inside.

I am really looking forward to Prague, this hostel seems awesome and I already think I will like it here more than Berlin. We'll see.