Krakow

Our last day in Krakow started with a trip to the bakery next door. We ate in a park on our way to the castle, which is "arguably the site to see in Krakow." We walked the steps up to the castle and were greeted by a large, metal, fire-breathing dragon, which seemed to double as a children's jungle gym. We continued up the hill and walked around the castle grounds. We toured the beautiful statesrooms with marble floors and staircases and lavish ceilings. When buying our tickets for the states room we also purchased tickets to visit the dragon's den. We got to a small opening with a lady standing out front taking tickets and she told us to enter through the small door, which started our lengthy trip down the nauseating, spiral staircase. Finally we got to the bottom, where it was chilly but definitley a site to see. It was an underground cave and we had fun walking through it.

We then returned to our hostel to do some much needed laundry. Instead we fell asleep and decided to do laundry when we woke up because it would take 2 hours per load. We woke up around 7 and put a load of laundry in. Nicole and Franki went to the train station to buy our tickets to Bratislava, while Denise and Amanda stayed behind to "finish up the laundry." After finally buying tickets on the tram after looking for a ticket booth forever, Nicole and Franki were on their way to the train station. They were given a nice surprise at the ticket counter because they found out that they needed the passports to make the reservations, which were in the hostel... of course. By the time they got back to the hostel empty handed (2 hours later) they figured they would have some laundry done. Unfortunaly the first load was still not done... and wouldn't be done for another hour... so they said. Many rounds of euchre later the laundry was still not done... now it was about midnight. We decided to go to bed and pack our laundry in the morning. The one laundry load that consisted of three pants, five tank-tops and some underwear took an amazing 6 hours to complete. Needless to say the majority of our clothes are still dirty.