Amy's Excellent Adventure

Praha

I couldn't sleep but was able to catch a beautiful sunrise from my hostel window in Prague. I think I'd rather have had the sleep but o well.

posted by Amy @ 2:40 PM 5 comments

More bones

Kinda reminds you of Indiana Jones a little bit.

posted by Amy @ 2:32 PM 3 comments

Dem Bones

Crazy stuff. There is a bone church outside of Prague in a city called Kutna Hora. The entire inside is made up of the bones from 20,000 people. There are tons more photos on my ofoto account if anyone is interested.

posted by Amy @ 2:28 PM 0 comments

Heidi's Big Ass Beers

How I love the Hofbrauhaus. One liter beers. Yum yum. A couple of those will knock you on your ass.

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Killer Hike

Yeah, so two and half hours and 3000 feet later, we made it to the top of this mountain. It's a big one. Time for a rest.

posted by Amy @ 3:54 AM 1 comments

Interlaken

Interlaken is in wedged in the middle of the Swiss Alps with two ginormous lakes on both side. Heids and I did a hike where we could see both lakes. I took this a little less than halfway up. O what a hike.

posted by Amy @ 3:52 AM 4 comments

Switzerland

So we just left Switzerland...so sad. It was absolutely beautiful there, however, incredibly expensive. Fifteen bucks for a hamburger? Who are they kidding. Thank you but I will pass and satisfy myself with the bread I stole from our FREE bread and jelly breakfast this morning. Get real people. Heidi and I also managed to cut back on our drinking costs by happy hour hopping from hostel to hostel. Two for ones? Im there. We did, however, splurge our last night on a wonderful meal from none other than Hooters. Who would have guessed that there´d be a Hooters over here. American food...Im all over that.

The one luxury item I allowed myself to partake in was Canyoning. $115 and worth every cent. We drove an hour up the mountain to Grimmsel Canyon where we were outfited in wet suits, booties, helmuts, and harnasses. We started off with a 150 foot repell down into the canyon followed but a 20 foot jump into the river/creek. We followed the river and did several more jumps, natural rock slides, and two zip lines.

One of the jumps I did was 70 feet and I had to jump out as far as I could into the white water of the fall in order to clear the cliff below. That one was a little scary. There is no way this stuff would be legal in the states. Anyways, it was completely awesome and definitely on my top 5 list for the coolest things Ive ever done...right next to running with the bulls.

posted by Amy @ 3:44 AM 3 comments

SanSabastian

Sooooo pretty! San Sabastian was my favorite place in Spain. We stayed here four nights and went down to Pampalona to run with the bulls for a night. Since all the hostels in Pampalona were booked up we stayed up all night partying and ran in the morning. You need to start lining up around 630 AM!

posted by Amy @ 11:01 AM 1 comments

John & Me

Look at my cute boyfriend! I miss him muchas.

posted by Amy @ 10:58 AM 0 comments

Palace in Madrid

Heids, John, and I outside the palace in Madrid. I look short. How strange.

posted by Amy @ 10:57 AM 4 comments

Party Crashers

This is a picture from that party we crashed in Marbella...aka the coolest party ever. Towards the end of the party everyone started throwing the silk pillows around and eventually ripped them up and feathers were everywhere. Crazy stuff. And this didn´t even happen until 4 AM!

posted by Amy @ 10:56 AM 0 comments

Marbella, Spain

Heids and I catching a beautiful sunset after an excellent dinner and a couple jugs of sangria with our Canadian friends Ivana and Tenisha.

posted by Amy @ 10:53 AM 2 comments

Lagos, Portugal

Just as beautiful as I remembered it. The cliff out there is the one I jumped off. Pretty sweet. Beyond that cliff is another beach, followed by another cliff and another beach. There are caves and grottos connecting them all. Awesome.

posted by Amy @ 10:51 AM 0 comments

Lisboa, Portugal

So beautiful. This picture speaks for itself.

posted by Amy @ 10:48 AM 2 comments

John at the Hostel in Madrid

This is a very typical hostel picture. John, chilling on the bunk bed, checking out the Let´s Go book, trying to figure out where to go tonight.

posted by Amy @ 10:44 AM 1 comments

Bye Bye Beaches

So after a 7 hour bus ride, Heidi and I finally arrived in Madrid. The 7 hours really wasn´t that bad though. A lot of reading, sleeping, and random old Spanish men that smelled like dirty tacos.

We spent the last week touring the beaches of south eastern Spain. We spent most of our time in Marbella "Beautiful Sea". Our first night there we ended up crashing this huge company party for a communications firm. It was an annual party they have in a different country every year. By far, this was the coolest party I´ve ever seen. There was a stage erected on the beach just feet away from the ocean with a dance floor, live band, and dj. Silk pillows were everywhere for seating in the sand, they had fire dancers, burlesque dancers, glow necklaces, bubbles, and fireworks. It was awesome to say the least.

A fifteen minute bus ride from there is Puerto Banus...the Monaco of Spain. There were so many rich people, fancy cars, ginormous yachts, and stores that I would never dare set foot in. It was fun to go check out for a night but a little too pricey for me. Ten Euros for a drink? Get real people. I´m not even kidding about the size of these yachts. Some of them looked like mini cruise ships!

Anyways, we are in Madrid now and will be here for 6 nights. Heidi and I are going out to Kapital tonight, a discoteca with seven floors and trapeze dancers above the main stage. John flies in on Monday and it will be the three of us for the next two weeks.

posted by Amy @ 11:34 AM 6 comments