Prague + Blog = Plog: Day 15 - Coffee, Nail Polish and Snowball Fight

More snow today. We decided to find a local person to help us find more authentic (non-touristy) foods, crafts and travel opportunities outside of the city. The company that rented us the apartment put us in touch with a woman that we agreed to meet at a café shop near the National Theatre at 1:00pm (actually it was 1:30, but at least we were on time for once, even if it was by accident). We were told to look for a woman holding newspaper. Seemed simple enough. At about 1:50, and after approaching the wrong woman once, and observing 4 out of 5 woman that were alone holding a newspaper of some kind, we happed to get a phone call from the management company. They wanted to know if it was ok to go into the apartment to clean and change the linens. We took the opportunity to explain that we had been waiting 25 minutes for our assistant. They said they would call her and get back to us, which they did rather quickly. She was not coming. At first we were told that she did not get my confirmation by email, as requested, but when we got home later that night she basically explained that she blew us off for the Ritz Carlton who had some VIPs that needed her more. Oh well, we did manage to pass the time in the café and Karl had two cups of coffee….WIRED. This also made it easy to convince him to walk 8 miles (we later looked up the mileage and it is actually more like three miles round trip to the square from the apartment) through the cold and falling snow to Wenceslas Square so I could go to Sephora to buy nail polish. I think he also realized he could get a trdelnik there and so, without further delay, off we went. Rather uneventful – at least for Karl. I thoroughly enjoyed Sephora. The more eventful moment, perhaps, was getting back to the apartment and realizing we had lost the nail polish in the snow somewhere along the way…ugh. Oh well, we used the time of mourning to make more paper snowflakes (I did…Karl worked on the computer doing who knows what). For dinner we venture out with no direction. Could have been a big mistake, since we walked around for an hour "not being able to agree on a restaurant" - K. I would have been happy eating anywhere but SOMEBODY is a little picky... All was not lost however as we launched perhaps the biggest snowball war in Prague history, even if it was just the two of us, although a few innocent bystanders may have caught the errant snowball. The snow was wet and perfect for the occasion. Running down alleyways, dodging behind statues and parked cars, it was almost like being in a video game of sorts. I’m not sure the locals knew what to make of us…were we really trying to kill each other? I'm surprised that we didn't set off any car alarms. I won btw. After about an hour, starving and completely soaked, we agreed on Mexican food. Once inside the restaurant it took us a while to figure out why everyone was starring at us. Could it be because we walked in looking like we just got out of the shower, in our clothes? Another great meal at another one of our favorite eating spots. Coronas, tacos, carne asada, cheesecake and chocolate tarte. Yum. Well fueled up for WWIII. Right out of the front door Karl lunged for snow and took cover behind a car…I went into a full sprint. The game was on (much to the amusement (ok, horror) of the restaurant patrons and passersby). Let me just point out that it was a different battle when you are stuffed with food. I may have actually vomited in my mouth once or twice. Anyway, the intensity picked up in this round…the snowballs (cannonballs) were getting larger and more frequent, and it was definitely more dangerous to be an innocent bystander. Cold, wet and tired, we crawled back to the apartment and chilled for a while watching tv. Karl tried to stay awake for the Patriots game, which started at 2:30am here, but didn’t last past the first field goal. I was long gone before that. We’ve both been a little disappointed about not being able to run since being here due to the weather, but we are definitely making up for this with other outdoor activities.