cardboard window!

That is how our window in our room looks right now. There is definitely not supposed to be cardboard up there...there should be a window sitting in that spot.

Laura and I noticed on Monday, when we returned from Berlin, that our window was messed up. We are on the fifth floor and that is the top window, but it looked like someone had to have messed with it. The wood around the hinges on the window was busted out like the window had been pushed or something. We're not sure, but there was a piece of the busted off wood from the window lying on the floor. There had been window cleaners that came by the day or the day before we left for Berlin, so we don't know if it may have been them. Anyhow, we went downstairs yesterday and reported it to the front desk. The guy said he would tell the maintenance man. At home, "I'll tell the maintenance man" means he might get around to it this week or we would have to come back down to the front desk and ask again... Well not in the Czech Republic. "I'll tell the maintenance man" means "he'll be up to your room in literally one minute". So I went back up to the room and there was a knock one minute later. So the maintenance man came in and looked at the window then told me 'this is problem' (he didn't speak much english), and left..so I was a bit confused not knowing if he'd be back or what. Well about 5 or 10 minutes later the front desk called and the guy told me they couldn't fix it today but they'd fix it tomorrow.
Well, 8 o'clock this morning another maintenance man came. He came and left about 3 times - each time Laura and I had hopped back into bed for more sleep - just to be woken up again by another knock. Eventually, he took the window out and replaced it with cardboard. And that's all we know for now. We have no idea when it will be replaced... good thing the weather is nicer now and not freezing cold.