End of an Era

Today we did our last New Europe walking tour on our backpacking adventure. Its starting to hit that were almost done, and none of us like that feeling.

Now, Halloween was that night. And being the girls we are, we had to think of a costume would could all wear. Including Rob. Rob came up with the great idea (of course....he is full of grand ideas) to be ninjas. He even found cheap toy ninja swords! So before the walking tour we picked them up. We looked kinda ridiculous walking around with ninjas swords in the walking tour...but we didnt care. Were Ninjas.

Our tour guide was lovely, an energetic woman from the states that moved to Prague with her husband.
Although, theres not much to say about the Prague walking tour. Especially in comparison to Berlin, the history here while rich...doesnt interest me much. To be honest I cant remeber much to tell about it.
The Jewish Quarter was an area that was seperated to keep the Jews in. They were only allowed to live work and live in this one area. Including the cemetary. So there are up to 12 coffins burried on top of each other. It looks like a jumbled mess of tombstones.

Other then that, they talked alot about how Czechs like to punish and kill people by throwing them out the window. They have quite a few monuments dedicated to Fran Kakfra, a mentally ill man who wrote many famous books. Thats about it. And believe me...we were listening and interested this time.....just kinda wasnt our thing.

Then it was time to get our Ninja on. We had our swords, we all had black clothes, we got a scarfs to tear up for headbands, and got Rob some woman tights. We were all set. We go upstairs to our room and SURPRISE!

Inside are 5 teenage boys from Germany and all our stuff is gone. Turns out, we were supposed to move rooms that day and reception failed to relay that information to us. So, the cleaning ladies took our stuff and moved it for us. They were incredable appoligetic and gave us free breakfast. Plus, once we knew all our stuff was there...we basked in the glory we didnt have to move our backpacks. Bonus.

While getting ready, our new roomate came in. Chris from Florida. Nice guy, he was new in Prague so we invited him to come to the halloween pub crawl. He agrees...says he thinks he has a costume. Goes in the washroom and comes out in full Ninja gear! We couldnt believe it, its like he knew we were going to be Ninjas and packed it just in case. Having Chris along was great, really sweet guy....plus now Rob had a playmate.

The pub crawl was great. Our costumes were a hit....even though no one else was dressed up cause apparently everyone celebrated halloween the night before. Our swords were all broken by the end of the night...however we got quite a bit of fun in before that. Even a Ninja dance! Considering we didnt have much to work with, are costumes were great! Everyone loved them. Plus, the next morning we were leaving Prague for our last destination so we went hard. Especially Chris, he decided that he needed to go home to say good bye to his dieing cat, so it was his last night as well....