I met interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture...and punched them in the face!

...but we'll get to that in a minute. First, the Prague rundown. We got into town around midnight, and checked into our hostel. Like an idiot, I booked us in for the wrong days, and all that was left was a private room. It was a little beyond our budget, but better than knocking door-to-door on various hostels trying to find a room at that hour. Nice hostel, nice folks, good location. Most excellent.

Now how about something extremely radical! I've known about the Kosnice Ossuary outside of Prague since I was in high school. It is a church whose inside is decorated with human bones. The remains of 40,000 plague victims, to be exact. Taylor and I hopped on a train to the little town of Kutna Hora, and hoofed it up to the church. I was fully prepared to be underwhelmed, but boy was I wrong. Check this shit out!

This is going to be on the cover of our death metal record:



This, too:



Skulls and bones:



This chandelier includes every bone in the human body at least once:



So cool...totally worth the day trip from Prague:



On our second day in Prague, we were riding the metro towards the center of town when some sucka-fool pick pocketed my camera out of my day bag. Luckily, I thought something was up and saw some dude walking away with it under his hat. I stiff-armed him in the face, grabbed my camera back, and then gave him a good right jab in the nose. Ha! I win this time, Prague!

Here is a dramatic reenactment of the event:



The Prague metro system installed new signs on all trains:




No big deal. Prague was fun times. Met some nice folks, drank some wine, and ate some good food (as well as some McDonalds.) Next stop, Berlin.

Back in the West: