Bones?!

Saturday was really good! We went on our first excursion with ISA to Kutna Hora, it's about an hour and a half drive from Prague. It was a really cute town and we were able to get a tour of it with our tour guide, she was basically a living history book.The Czech coins were minted there and it used to be regarded as, during the middle ages, the jewl and the treasury of the country.

This is the Bone Church in Kutna Hora. I looks like a normal church on the inside but that is not the case...



Yes...Those are real human bones made into a chandelier. It's actually really impressive and interesting to look at. When we first walked in I felt really awkward taking pictures of peoples bones but obviously I got over that.



This is just Kelli, Me, and Cassi infront of the Coat of arms of rhe house of Schwarzenberg, I don't actually know what that means but that is all the information I have on it.  I was too caught up in the fact that I was in such close proximity to human remains.

I stuck my camera through one the FOUR cages they had that contained, literally, a mountain of bones. I would say the saddest, yet, most interesting thing about the Church was that the bones belong to unidentified people. When you see how many bones are really there it's sad to think about how many missing people there are in just that one place.

On a much lighter note this is a square in Kutna Hora. It was really cute, just like every other place I've seen thus far. They have really preserved their town. Our tour guide said that what the people do to the buildings is cover the original sandstone with plaster because plaster is a soft stone and wouldn't stand up for the amount of time that the buildings have stood.

The above picture is just of the small statue on the corner because I thought it was neat how, way back when, they used to know people's addresses by what symbol their house was and they have preserved that in Kutna Hora.

We spent all day in Kutna Hora so of course they had to feed us. We ate in a really cute pub, we had a 3 course lunch (they like to eat a lot at lunch time). Now, the real reason I put this photo on here is because I just had to show everyone a typical Czech meal. They absolutely love their meat (the chicken) and potatoes (the cute little dumplings). It's really an obsession they have and one that could stand to be a little updated, not that I don't enjoy it sometimes, it's just that it's really heavy on your stomach and I miss my vegatables.

Like I said earlier Kutna Hora is famous for the Czech mints which you can go see in the castle type building that is there but honestly that was my least favorite part of the whole trip. What I did like was this room (the above picture). I guess I didn't realize there were no cameras allowed...oops.

Another unauthorized picture. The entire room was coved in really outrageous wallpaper, that's pretty much why I liked it so much.



Just a look at some of the town!







St. Barbara's Cathedral! It was really gorgeous on the outside and even pretty inside.

There were a lot of things to look at around the enitre building and even though I loved looking around I was freezing inside! Just like every other church I've been in here it is always so much colder inside than it is outside! It actually felt warm outside compared to how cold it was in this building, you could see your breath is how cold it was inside.

After our tour of the town we headed back to Prague! I slept the whole way back and spent time with friends later that evening. Basically it was another successful day.