The day of James

Saturday, January 2, 2010

The day everyone left. It was so sad. I woke up extra early so that I could say goodbye to everyone and exchange names and emails. I wasn’t about to let them leave without having a contact in NZ or Barcelona for pete’s sake. It was really cute, the Barcelona boys each wrote me a little note next to their emails. Awww we really bonded over NY hehe. When J-M finally woke up we showered and left the hostel by 11:15am. Our destination: Bohemian Bagel baby! Again, I haven’t had a bagel since Bethesda Bagels in September. W got there at the perfect time because only moments after our orders were up did a bombardment of tourist groups come in. The line was out the door. Good timing. I was wonderful to eat a whole wheat bagel again, oh how I’ve missed you. After Boho Bagel we decided to explore the areas of Prague we really hadn’t explored yet, New Town and Vinohrady. ON the way I found the best book store: Big Ben’s Books. All the books were in ENGLISH. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was over stimulated with the amazing section of books. The store had new releases as well as the classics. I didn’t know where to start. When i found the Lovely Bones I just couldn’t resist buying it. I know I told my sister that she should get it for me to read in February but I just couldn’t wait. Megan was telling what a great book it was and it was relatively small so I could afford to put it in my backpack. Looking back now I should have taken more advantage of the book store and bough two books because its January 10th and I already finished The Lovely Bones. I never use to read books this fast. That tells you how much free time I have on my hands in Spain. We each left the store with a new purchase. YEAH!!! :) :) :)

So New Town and Vinohrady were major let downs. I wasn’t quite sure what we were suppose to se in these areas so we just kind of wondering the streets. Nothing really peaked our interest so after a while we just decided to head back to the hostel because we were cold. We got back to the hostel and recuperated at around 3pm. I napped for a little and when I woke up James was in the room. We all thought that he left this morning but apparently he just left early in order to go to the castle wit Stephen who did leave. We talked with him for awhile and invited him to join us as we tried to find a internet cafe to print out our boarding passes and then hit up this amazing vegetarian restaurant. Well we didn’t see ANY internet cafes so we went to one place we knew had a printing station, Boho Bagel. Round 2. We spent a good 45 minutes there talking and printing our boarding passes.

It was officially dinner time and we were so excited to try this vegetarian place. The review we read made it sound scrumptious. It also happened to be really close to Boho Bagel so that was a plus. Well we found and restaurant and the CLOSE sign on its door. WHY?!?! Ugh, we were all defeated. We then tried this Austrian place right across the street but unfortunately it was also closed. Well I wasn’t about to wonder around all night like we had previous nights so I just suggested going back to Boho Bagel for dinner. While we were talking I noticed their dinner food looked really good. So yes, we returned to Boho Bagel for the third time in one day. We assumed the cashiers recognized our faces by this time haha. I ordered this vegetarian sandwich that was massive but really good. Everyone else ordered something different and we each tried each others food once again. One big happy family. After our dinner we got a drink at a pub but then decided to turn in. We got back to the hostel and just stayed up for hours talking. It was actually a lot of fun. James was really a good sport, hanging out with three girls. It felt like classic pillow talk and I loved it! I hadn’t laughed that hard in a long time. James began to confine in us about relationship advice and we all couldn’t get enough of it. He then proceeded to tell us how he believes the 40 Year-Old Virgin was inspired by his brother, the 32 Year-old Virgin. He made a pretty convincing case if you ask me haha

This was the kind of hanging out I like to do and I hadn’t gotten a chance to do it since arriving in Spain. We all really bonded and got to know each other on another level. Well it was starting to get late and James really did have to leave bright and early in the morning.