beautiful weather

Today the weather was SO nice. It was definitely the nicest day in Prague since I have been here...but the weather should be even better in GREECE.
We had to go pick up our tickets today for the plane to Greece because they don't sell electronic tickets. Last Thursday some of the people going had gotten together and booked the tickets. The prices online had spiked, so they called Olympic Airlines and got better prices that way. The lady booked the tickets and gave them a confirmation number. She told them we had to pick up the tickets at the Czech Airlines desk at the airport before we left.. because there is no Olympic Airlines terminal at the Prague airport. So we made a trip out to the airport today. Luckily our dorm is in the best spot to be going to the airport because we're at the last metro stop closest to the airport.. so there's a shuttle that goes to the airport from our dorm pretty much. It still takes about 20 minutes on this bus.

Well, we headed out there and got to the Czech Airlines desk. Luckily the lady speaks English. That would have been a whole new problem if she didn't speak English well. It turns out she couldn't find our confirmation number and since they weren't Olympic Airlines they couldn't pull up some information. So after a lot of talking back and forth she finally tells us to head to this office in Old Town Square where they can book our flights again because our confirmation number is not in the computer. We had 1 hour to do it before it closed. Luckily, 2 of the girls hadn't come with us so we called them and they headed to this office ahead of us.
We ended up having to rebook our flights (luckily for the same-a little bit cheaper actually - price). And for some reason they don't take credit cards, so we all had to go to the nearest ATM and get out all this money. It was pretty ridiculous. Sometimes, those Czechs do anything to make things more difficult than they should be.

Anyways, we finally got our plane tickets. There are 8 of us going to Greece. Four boys and four girls. There are two guys from the Milwaukee school that is also studying with us. When we were in that office booking flights they had all these books and pamphlets about Greece and it looks so amazing. So as long as the skies are clear, I will be happy. We are flying into Athens and our plan is to take a ferry to Santorini where we can relax on the black sand beeches.

I would have to say that today is the first day I have wished I had a car here. I love public transportation.. really.. but when we ended up going to the airport for no reason and needed to get to the center of town, it was a pain in the butt. Subways aren't so bad, but busses with all their stops can get very annoying! It also didn't help that the European body odor issue could really be smelled on that bus as well.. and it was a very crowded bus.

But we felt much better once we go the tickets and feel we deserve to relax in Greece after awhile.

When I got back to the dorm, Laura was just getting back from studio (which mine was canceled today) and we decided to go for a run, since it was absolutely perfect outside. We jogged around the neighborhood that is behind our campus - there are really pretty houses back there. Its nice and hilly. There is still some exploring to be done back there, but it was a nice little jog.