Prague... I'm in love!

Katie at the keyboard...
As to the title, I mean I'm love with the city (don't worry mom, I did not fall in love in a day with a handsome European man and I'm not dropping out of school to move to Europe quite yet) :) It's been almost a week since our last post and we've seen so much since then! Here's a quick rundown...
After leaving Brugges, we jumped on a train to The Netherlands and spent the day in Amsterdam. We spent way too much money to store our packs at the train station, there were a ridiculous amount of bikes, beautiful canals and architecture, lots of graffiti, the red light district was... interesting, we saw the Anne Frank house (which was very moving), we didn't smoke any weed (although I was tempted to try a space cake), and we ate some flat caramel Belgium waffle things... delicious!
Then we jumped back on a train... however this was a night train that was taking us up to Denmark. We boarded at 7 pm and didn't arrive in Copenhagen until 10 the next morning. We shared our compartment with a lovely lady named Hilly who informed us that we were going to be in the city at the beginning of the National Bicycling week and she was going to be biking across the country. The compartment was a little cramped and hot at times, but I had no trouble sleeping and liked the rocking motion of the train whereas Sarah woke up quite a few times when the train would make random stops. We actually camped for the 2 nights in Copenhagen... I had no problem with this considering the forecast looked good and the campground was right over a hill from the beach. When we got there, we set up the tent and went directly to the beach where we stayed most of the afternoon. We had a lazy day, walked around a bit, and ate some pizza and ice cream for dinner. The next day we went into the city to see the sites. We had planned on renting city bikes because they were free and only had to put down a deposit. However, after arriving in the city, we discovered that they were all rented out. This was fairly disappointing because we'd been walking so much already the past few weeks that our legs really needed a break. We explored the city for most of the day and saw some great parks and plenty of historical buildings. We randomly walked by a church where we heard beautiful music so we went into listen and there was a rehearsal going on with a large choir and full orchestra. We spent some time sitting in a few parks and treated ourselves to an Italian buffet for dinner because we were famished.
The following day, we woke up bright and early, prepared to catch a 9:30 train for Berlin, but found after arriving at the station that the train didn't run at that time until later in the summer so we had to sit at the station for a few hours until the next one. We bought large containers of chocolate milk and played Yatzee for awhile (I won the first game, but then Sarah ended up getting double Yatzee on her last turn of the second game and won hands down!... she started crying out of pure joy and the fact she had just previously said she was a horrible Yatzee player). At this time, a drunk homeless man came walking up to our table. We talked with him for a little while at first, but felt slightly uncomfortable when we started following us around and yelling at us. It was at this time that we escaped to the bathrooms and snuck out when he wasn't looking and went to our train platform so he couldn't find us (Again, don't worry mom. There were a lot of people around and we were entirely safe).
After arriving in Berlin, we had a little trouble finding our hostel. At one point I asked in a little restaurant, but no one spoke English. Everyone was very nice and willing to help so in the end, I had about 5 people trying to give me directions in German and all I could do was nod my head like I knew what they were saying. Luckily, a nice man came in a few minutes later and was able to translate the directions. After finding our hostel (which was in a really nice and well-off part of town). We ended up going to a Greek restaurant (which is kind of weird considering we had just arrived in Germany), but the food was excellent. It was my first time trying a Gyro and I must say that I loved it. Unfortunately, we ordered a bottle of water which ended up costing 4 euro which is ridiculously expensive. Berlin was a great city and very rich in history (especially from the time of WWII). We saw one of two remaining sections of the Berlin wall, the Tiegarden park right in the middle (in which we walked by a field of all naked tanning men), and went to the top of the Reichstag building which is a glass dome with a 360 degree view of Berlin. I had my first doner kebab and it is now my all time favorite food. The last day there, we went to a concentration camp 40 minutes north of the city and it was an extremely moving experience. Unfortunately, we were on a time crunch to catch our next train so we didn't get to read all the stories and descriptions.
We made it on the train to Prague with just minutes to spare. I think that the train ride was my favorite by far because we were in a valley with big hills on both sides and went along a river for most of the ride. There were little old towns and villages all along the river and some castles and homes on really high cliffs. We met a girl named Susan on the train who gave us tips for Prague and she'd never been to the United States, so we shared some info on our country as well. The train station at Prague was a little sketchy and the information desk was closed when we arrived, but we eventually found our way to our hostel. We're in a 6 bed hostel (3 bunk beds), but the hostel isn't fully booked, SO WE HAVE THE ROOM TO OURSELVES! It's great to get a little bit of comfort and privacy and we'd be paying $$$ if we had booked just a double room. We made some spaghetti for dinner, washed our clothes in the sink, and went to bed. This morning, we went on a walking tour of the city. There are so many buildings dating back to before the 1400s and also a great deal of history under the rule of communist USSR. Tomorrow we're going to see Prague Castle and the Charles bridge and then jump on a train to either Vienna to visit my friend Nick or Munich to visit my friend Nathan.
We'll see where the wind blows... as for now we're having a great time and meeting a lot of fun people. We miss everyone and hope everything is good back at home!