The entire group had to meet at 9 AM, an ungodly hour for college students, to go to a village called Kutna Hora for the day. No one was especially enthused about it but today turned out to be a great day. I got to hang out with a lot of people I really enjoy here. It snowed for most of the day and the snowflakes were actually tiny little things just like you imagine snow to be. We went to a church and to the old mint where this guy actually made us coins like they did in ye olde times. I will probably lose mine as it is super tiny but it was really exciting at the time. Then we went to lunch. It was free (read:included in atrocious costs we paid to be here in the first place) and was three courses of hearty, Czech goodness. It was also warm which was a major plus on such a cold day. Nevertheless, the best part of the day was yet to come. After lunch, we loaded up on a bus and were driven to a rather unimposing church. Then we walked inside to find seriously the coolest church ever. Inside, there were bones from over 40,000 people, many of them plague victims, made into all sorts of decoration. It sounds creepy, which it was, but it was also just really cool. Even the confessionals had skulls and bones on them... talk about pressure. Anyway,that's all for now... enjoy the photos!
Chandelier made of human skulls and I guess whatever other parts of the body were aesthetically useful
The smith (coinsmith??) making tiny coins for us.
The center of one of the 4 pyramids of bones in the church, each of which was at least 20 feet high.
The smith (coinsmith??) making tiny coins for us.
The center of one of the 4 pyramids of bones in the church, each of which was at least 20 feet high.
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