Today was our only day in Prague. After flying in, we headed to our hotel and starting taking in the city.
We visited the little shops down the streets filled with colorful plates, coffee mugs, and basically anything they could stamp the word Prague on it. We made a few purchases and headed to a local restaurant where we enjoyed Czech dishes for lunch. My meal was called the mixed cocktail. It had pork, some type of sausage, pickled vegetables, bread, little circular biscuit like things and a sauce to top it all off with. It was really good, but I was not able to finish all of it because there was so much.
The next stop on our list was a weird piece of art by an artist named David Cerny of crawling babies with barcodes on their faces. My take on what it means is something about consumerism and how people can be easily bought, but you may have a different perspective. Nonetheless, we climbed on the giant babies and took a few pictures.
Just down the hill we could see the river and random yellow penguins as well. The view by this park was quite beautiful. You could see the Charles Bridge and a good view of the city. 
A couple blocks away was the John Lennon wall, a wall filled with colorful graffiti and messages left by people from all over the world.The funny thing is that John Lennon has never been to Prague.
After taking a few pictures and doing a bit of people watching, we were getting a bit hungry and in the mood for something sweet. On one of the small streets we walked in and grabbed a sweet treat. In Prague, this dessert is known as Trdelnik. It is a wrapped pastry sprinkled with sugar and other spices and filled with ice cream or frozen yogurt. I ordered mine with vanilla yogurt, and chocolate and caramel syrup. It was really tasty, but also a bit messy.
As we ate, we walked up and down the street looking at all of the little shops. We entered one to see if they had anything of interest. When we got to the back of the store, the store owner looked at us and asked us about the yogurt we had in our hands, but the way he said it was quite confusing. However, we were able to find out that he does not allow people to eat while in his shop. On the way out, a really aggressive lady pushed by Joelle, and would not move out of the way, causing Joelle to graze against the side of one of the tables and one of the necklaces fell on the ground. I bent down to pick it up, thinking I was doing the right thing. As soon as I picked it up the store owner rushed over and started to accuse Joelle of falling over on it and demanded that she must pay full price for the damages. He was very insistent. He did not care that the other woman was at fault, or that she was involved in the matter at all. He was very rude. Joelle paid for the necklace, but it was not they way things should have been handled. I briefly spoke to the man before we left, trying to explain to him that he did not have to be rude, even though a necklace was slightly damaged. No one should be yelled at or demeaned in such a way. We were a bit irritated as we left.
After such an encounter, we headed further into town and came across old town square with all the old buildings and the astronomical clock. This square was jam packed with people. At one point, there were people leading some type of march chanting something in another language. I have no idea what they said, but I am sure that it was important to them. 
Our next stop was to another statue that was a bit hidden among a shopping center. The statue of Franz Kafka was also designed by the artist David Cerny. It is made of metal and the statue moves every so often changing from the front view of a face to the side view and mixed in between. It was mesmerizing watching the statue as it spun around. We probably sat down watching for about 30 minutes before we left and headed inside the shopping center next door.
After the shopping center had closed, we took the metro and headed to Prague Castle. We got a bit lost on the way there but we eventually found our way there. The only bummer about getting to the castle is all of the steps that you have to climb to reach the top. The view was worth the walk though. You could see most of Prague from this view. It was beautiful, the pictures simply do not do it justice.
The last few stops of the night we tried to find more of David Cerny’s statues around the city. The first one we tried to visit was of a pregnant woman. We arrived at the address, but when we arrived we found out that the city had it taken out. The next statue we visited is called the hanging man. Off the side a building, a metal statue of a man hangs in the air. I was able to take a picture but because it was so late, the lighting was not too great. If you look really closely in the picture you can make out the man in the middle of the image.
We were getting a bit tired so I looked up on my phone the directions back to the hotel. On the way, we ran into another David Ceny statue. This statue is supposed to be of him. It is an interesting depiction.
The last thing that we were able to see on the way back was the penguins lit up at night. It looked really cool against the backdrop of the water and the bridge.
