Friday in Prague, and Semi Finals

Changing of the guard at Prague Castle.

More pictures of the church in the middle of Prague Castle that was 600 years in the making.

More pictures of the church in the middle of Prague Castle that was 600 years in the making.

More pictures of the church in the middle of Prague Castle that was 600 years in the making.

This is me standing in front of a church in Prague Castle. It took almost 600 years to build. One of the people I was with made the comment "and I thought my DIY projects were bad"

Here is a picture of Charles' bridge, One of the few solely pedistrian walking areas in the city. I believe it was about 600 years old, built in the 1300's.

This is a picture of one of the old buildings in Prague that houses the current governement.

The semi finals didn't start until the afternoon on Friday, so we decided to go see downtown Prague. It is a very different city, as there seems to be quite divided, not just the old town and new town, but also the areas that the government has been working hard to clean up and make a tourist destination, but on the way to that area, there are certainly signs of the years of tough times that the country saw. It appears although the government is working to change that, as there is a lot of construction going on, but there are certianly still signs of the hard times of the 80's and 90's.

We went to see Prague Castle (although not a castle in the true sense, more of a town that was used for royalty), we saw the old town, Charles Bridge, the new town, the lesser town, all quite interesting.

It was then time for the semi finals. With only 2 games today it meant we each took 1 game. Risto and I had the late game between Canada East and Canada West. He wasn't too happy with this, but I was, as I figured they were going to play hard and fast and put it all on the line. That was exactly what happened. Good hard fast game that Canada East ended up winning 4 - 0. Finland White won the other semi 5 - 0 although there was no intensity to that game, so I was happy I had the semi I did. This sets up Canada East vs. Finland White in the gold game and Canada West vs Finland Blue for the Bronze.