Slovakia

Hello Again, sorry for my tardiness between posts.
We just got settled in our second hostel in Budapest, the first one didn't work out too well. But more about that later. We had a fun last night in Prague, which included meeting a street performer from Montreal named Alex who was really quite entertaining. We also ended up going out to possibly the coolest club I've ever been to. From the courtyard, to the bar, to the dancefloor everything was made from recycled industrial materials, mostly from the communist area apparently. There were light fixtures made from tire wells and irons (there were little blinky lights coming through the holes in the irons). And the entire outside/balcony was an intricate work of metal. I'm not quite sure how structurally sound it was but it looked cool.
Tuesday morning (not too early though) we took off for Bratislava the capital of Slovakia. It was suppose to be a 4 hour train ride but it ended up taking a little more than 6 so most of our day was spent traveling. Bratislava is a good size city along the Danube and was the site of many Hungarian coronations, fyi. I won't regurgitate much more from the tour book but we did visit this Palace which is now the Presidential residence and has less obvious security than the American embassy (surprise, surprise). They also have a castle too which was fun to walk around. And of course cheap beer. We liked that about Slovakia. We spent our first day walking around the Old Town and seeing most of the major sights(there really aren't that many especially if you only visit one church, like us). The next day we took a ferry boat that was really cool it went 62 km/h through the narrow canals of the Danube all the way to Vienna for the day. Unbeknowst to us this was the day of the semifinal game between Russia and Spain(woot woot). The streets were filled with fans and the Imperial Palace was home to a "FanZone." Which kind of ruined the effect. It was pretty wild and the Spanish fans were by far the more enthusastic group. We only got to see a few main sights in part because of the game and in part because of the intense thunderstorms that set in.
For example, it was overcast but still warm and we were wandering around outside of the main cathedral when all of a sudden I see all the fans that had been partying in the street running towards us. Not quite sure what was going on Kota and I ran too just as we felt the rain pelting our backs. We hid in an exspensive scarf store while it was absolutely pouring and the gargoyles on the church were releasing impressive streams of water. Nearly everyone had taken cover and the ladies in the store were really nice, but we still didnt touch anything. Like I said, it was pretty wild. We returned to Bratislava that evening where it was storming beyond belief. Winds, rain, thunder, lightning, the whole deal. We made it back to our hostel eventually but nonetheless we were pretty wet and carrying our purses in trash bags they gave us on the ferry. We stayed in after that.
Our last day in Bratislava we mostly hung around, had a nice lunch and some ice cream, then headed to the train station for Budapest, Hungary which we are exploring now.
More to come soon (I swear) I just hate to monopolize the computer.
Love,
Cara

p.s. I can not for the life of me find an exclamation point on this keyboard so please bear with me and just imagine my exclamations. Kisses and hugs(imagine...)