Today we did our first small day trip to Kutna Hora, a town about an hour away by train. It is the day before Easter, so there was a carnival there which made it a very populAr place for today. There are also two churches we were supposed to visit, the bone church, and st. Barbara. The bone church was built in the 14th century originally I believe but it was burned down sometime after that and rebuilt. The reason it is called the bone church is that there are bones from over 40,000 bodies that decorate the inside. About 30,000 bodies were from the plague, and the remaining bodies were from the 30 years war. There is a cemetery in front of the church where the bodies and bones were thrown so the family that owned the church asked a carver to clean the bones, carve them, and decorate the inside. It sounds really creepy, but it was actually pretty cool.
Sorry if the pictures are small by the way, I accidental changed a setting on my camera that changed the image size.
Here is a pictures of one of the girls, Liza, on the abroad while we were on the train to Kutna Hora. We were stuck in the train hallway, because all of the other seats were taken.
Tomorrow is Easter, which is a huge deal here, so I'm going to go to a bunch of the easter booths and take a lot of pictures.
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