The beginning of our Adventures in Prague!

We made it! We're here in Prague and it is AWESOME. We've had quite the adventure so far. Let's start from the beginning....

Thursday March 11:

Our flight was scheduled for 5:50 am, so we woke up at 2:00 am. When I woke up, I was shaky and felt sick to my stomach every time I thought about our trip. I thought I just was so nervous and anxious about the whole thing that I was making myself sick. I tried not to think about it but it caught up with me anyway and my mom had to pull over a few times on the way to the airport for me to "get rid of my nerves" if you know what I mean (thus the look on my face in the first picture). Not the most ideal way to start a 20 hour day of traveling. I had Brody give me a blessing when we got to the airport and instantly felt better and didn't throw up the rest of the day. He, however was not so lucky and ended up getting sick a few times on the plane as well. That's when we figured the sickness was probably caused from some sort of food and not so much nerves. Lucky for me, I'll be able to continue to travel in peace in the future!

So our flight plan was supposed to be as follows: {SLC to Minnesota; Minnesota to NY; NY to Prague.} We got to Minnesota fine, but our flight to NY was delayed, which made us miss our flight to Prague. So we had to be re-routed from Minnesota to Amsterdam, and then on to Prague. It only put us back an extra 2 hours and we didn't have to pay anything extra so it would have been fine had they not lost our bags. They told us to plan on a few days to get our bags back, but they ended up coming that night. It turned out to be the most ideal situation though because they were delivered straight to our hotel room, so we didn't have to deal with hauling them from the airport to our hotel!!

Backtrack to our experience of a 9 hour overseas flight. We were both feeling much better by the time we boarded a plane for the second time, so it wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. But since they had to re-route our flight, we didn't have seats together at first, so we asked if there was anything they could do. The only seats left that were together were the VERY LAST POSSIBLE row. I could touch the bathroom with my hand. We could hear the stewardess's talking in the back the whole time. There was even less leg room than normal. But whatever, I'd take that over sitting alone for 9 hours, any day. I slept (or tried to) about half the time and watched 2 movies. They fed us dinner and breakfast, which was weird, but good. Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, Brody had set it up so that when we got to Prague, a taxi guy was waiting for us in the airport with a sign. It was awesome! I felt famous or something. Special at least.

Here's our agenda for the first little bit in Prague just so all the rest of the pictures and everything makes sense:

Days 1-2: Stay in a hotel in downtown Prague and sightsee!

Days 3-9: Stay at the dorms out in Čelákovice where the school is. It's a small town about 30 minutes outside of Prague.

Day 10-the end: Stay in an apartment in downtown Prague.

Stay tuned for much more to come!