Pilsnerfest!

So on Saturday, me and a few people went to the city of Plzen (where the US liberated Czechoslovakia in WWII, incidentally) and attended Pilsnerfest 163, the 163rd anniversary of the discovery of pilsner beer, which occurred here. This fest was essentially a tiny little Oktoberfest which was awesome and extremely cheap. We toured the brewery--at one point in the underground area where beer used to be brewed extensively, our tour came across a group of guys dressed as knights or something playing cards and our tourguide stopped and started talking and we started taking pictures. And then one of the bearded giant men grabbed me, and sat me on their table and pretty much fell on me and pretended to do nasty things to me while the other guys fought with swords. It was traumatizing, a video of it was made by one of the kids here, and then they gave us free "healthy" unpasteurized traditionally made beer. Yeah so that was entertaining. Oh and there were rides, bumper cars and some sort of twister ride that was called the Crazy Polyp where we sat in the cars at the ends of the arms of a demonic octopus that shouted "I am the master voice" and made animal noises during the ride. It was weird. And I bought honey liquor, which is sweet and good. We ate in the biggest pub in the world, which was surprisingly cheap and good. So Pilsnerfest rocked.

Then on Sunday I went to the Czech symphony for the last night of their autumn festival. We heard assorted things, I have the program, it was pretty good, but then I'm not great at sitting through things. They did Strauss' Alpine Symphony and some cello thing by Dvorak, and something else. It was worth going to.

And Thursday we all went to a club called Nebe that was tiny, in a Romanesque cellar (yeah architecture class) and played "indie" music all night, so we danced to Franz Ferdinand and the Arcade Fire and The Cure and we're going again this week.

In other news, Prague has totally entered a rainy season. Blah!

Okay, JJ in particular, post or email me as to when you're coming here.