A Sight to See

Last weekend, as mentioned in the previous post, we went to Dresden, Germany for the day. I really liked Germany, the air felt fresher than in the crowded city of Prague and there seemed to be more space. Don’t get me wrong, there were still a ton of people in Dresden, it just felt different. We caught an early train to Dresden from Prague and so the first thing we did in Germany was find food! As most of you know I love soft pretzels, well Germany had a ton and they were delicious!! It made me very happy except they don’t have a dipping cheese but that’s okay! After we ate we had a choice of either going to an art museum or a castle museum. I chose the castle museum.

I couldn't take pictures inside the castle museum because it was heavily guarded. One person told me that this museum is one of the wealthiest museums because it houses so many diamonds and jewels. I like the part of the castle where there was jousting armor and weapons on display. It was just so fascinating to me that people would do that!

After the castle a group of us crossed over the river to find a restaurant for dinner. We ended up stopping at some little outside café. The menu was all in German so we just pointed to this soup that the guy at a table next to us was eating. It was a potato soup with sausages, and it was very yummy! We tried their beer and it was good as well.

Once we were done eating we met back up with the entire group and we walked up into a church tower. It was quite the climb, but once we got to the top we had an amazing view of the city. It was well worth the climb.

The most entertaining part of the day happened at the end. We were walking back to the train station to catch our train home when one of the accompanying professors comes up behinds us and casually says, I think we need to speed up a little bit… I asked him why and he said, because the train leaves in five minutes. We processed that for a second and then 24 American students and 3 professors took off running for the train station. We ran down a very busy street full of shoppers and street performers. We ran through a circle of break-dancers in the middle of a performance. People on the streets were laughing and making fun of us. A group of students made it to the station right as the train was pulling away, and we ended up completely missing it. We had to wait two hours until the next one back to Prague. So, we found a beer and took a seat and waited. It was quite humorous. We eventually made it home and all was well!