Wednesday morning was a beautiful and butt-freezing cold morning, but I forced myself out of bed, threw on two layers of pants and five layers of tops, gritted my teeth, and bared the cold, because it was finally the long-awaited day that I got to see my fellow SGL scholar, Monique. We met at IF Cafe, a cute place that she told me I would probably love because of my affinity for cakes, and she was right. We spent at least 10 minutes at the display case deciding on which cakes we wanted. We each got two cakes (#yolo) and chatted for a good hour before we headed out. We went to Vyšehrad again because I wanted to take photos in the good weather, and we did some thrift shopping along the way too. Monique took me to a cute spot near her school where the swans stopped, and HAHA who knew swans looked so dumb when they’re out of water? We took the famous (and crowded) Charles Bridge back to the other side, where we had a quick dinner at a local and cheap canteen called Havelska Koruna. We caught the tram to a lesser-known Christmas Market, where Monique tried her hand at haggling in a setting where they definitely did NOT haggle.
On Thursday, I explored the nearby farmers market before meeting Monique at Cafefin, a place I had been DYING to try ever since she posted a picture of it four months ago. I now know never to hype myself up for a place, because my expectations exceeded reality, leaving me sad and disappointed. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as spectacular as I was hoping :( The rest of the day was spent trying to find shelter every 20 steps we took, because it was too cold for us Hawaii girls. We ended up cutting our day short, and grabbed cake at another place on my food list called Cafe Savoy, and saying our goodbyes. I knew I needed to burn off the calories I had consumed, so despite the freezing cold, I tried to be productive and find the Prague Castle that every website had written about. I searched for a good 90 minutes, going up and down a hill with my not-so-handy-dandy Google Maps, until I finally gave up and went home.
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