my friend's bank considers the czech republic a third world country

Yesterday a few of us went on an adventure to the bus station in Prague to buy tickets to go to Bratislava today. One company told us they had a bus at 6:30 in the morning and we stood at the counter for 10 minutes debating whether we would be willing to get up for that, or could we just stay up all night, etc. Then we hopped on over to the Eurolines counter, at which we found an 8 AM bus and we were shoving our money over the counter when the woman helping us said "Sorry, there is a system failure. Please go out to the platform where there is a window also selling tickets." So we walk around the station aimlessly for 5 minutes, finally spot the window and wait on line. Same thing happened there. This time with no explanation and no possible solution. The man shook his head and sighed angrily, Matt said, "It's not working?" and he replied, "No. Sorry." We took this to be a sign advising us not to go to Slovakia this weekend... We didn't stick around to see if the system failure only applied to us or whether he whole line of ten people behind us would be turned away as well. We're still not sure what happened...

In other news, I spotted a pyramid on the horizon last night while we disembarked from the night tram. Apparently, after finding it with Google's satelite map, it's not very far away and I guess that means it isn't as huge as I'd imagined it to be. But anyway, there's a pyramid shaped building in Prague's Holesevice district (where we live) and today's adventure will be to find out what it is.