Brno, Czech Republic

 We ate dinner at a brewery. There was a hockey game playing...apparently Czechs do yell sometimes.

 Mozart performed here when he was 11.

 A view of the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul

 This is how we warmed up. It tasted as good as it looks.

 The foundation of Gregor Mendel's Greenhouse

 Waiting for the train, I decided to befriend some pigeons. 

This weekend seven of us took the 1.5 hour train ride to Brno, Czech Republic.  It was cloudy, rainy, and cold the whole time we were there but that did not ruin our fun! (Yes, we knew Nebraska was enjoying summer weather at the time.) We did most of our touring on Saturday.  Our agenda: a cool, creepy crypt full of dead monks, the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, a palace that was later a jail, and the abbey where Gregor Mendel did all of his research.  The city wasn't nearly as nice as Olomouc, but apparently we were staying in the Gypsy ghetto so maybe that had something to do with it! Overall it was a good first experience of traveling without the guidance of Jan or Martin, our Czech program coordinators. Yay for us!