Jeff, my Tufts friend who's in London for the semester, came to visit this weekend. After my unfortunate decision to skip the St. Mikulas celebrations in Old Town Square, I was at least able to see a few people dressed up in costumes on the metro when I went to pick up Jeff at the airport. We met up with his high school friend Hannah who is also studying in Prague, and decided to go out to a pub for a little while. However, we headed out a little late, and as it turns out, half the bars in Prague close at 11:30. After wandering for over an hour, we ended up going to U Sudu, a really cool underground cave-like pub that's open until 4:00 on the weekends. We had a quick jaunt to Lucerna afterwards, which was fun, but I realized that they play the EXACT same music there every night. Jeff also got his first taste of smazeny syr at the very appropriate hour of 3:00 in the morning.

We did out fair share of sighteeing on Saturday and Sunday. We went to the amazing garlic soup restaurant, the TV Tower, Old Town Square (with its Christmas markets), the Jewish Quarter, Prague Castle, Cafe Lourve, and Charles Bridge (twice). On Saturday night, Jeff even went with me to my Czech mom's party, which was maybe a little awkward, but a lot of fun. We went to a pub before the party since we were cold and a little to early, and Jeff got accosted by a very drunk Czech hobo whose only English phrase was, "You speak English?" It was very amusing and of course I got some pictures.

I still need to go to the Mozart Museum and do some Christmas shopping this week.