Urban Occupancy Exercise | 9.27.13 Friday

It's Friday and Josh doesn't have class today, therefore we planned to go to the Prague zoo.  But after much time wasting (on my part, I will admit to it) it was already around 2 and josh had to meet up with his studio group at their site at 4:30, so we figured that we would just go tomorrow cause we wanted plenty of time to see everything.  So we decided to head over in the direction of his studio site and walked around the area so josh could get some more findings for his group.  He is supposed to be tracking the different hours of operations around the site which include restaurants, grocery stores, etc as well as different price points around the area of similar items.  Finally it was time to meet up with the group and then from there, everyone in the studio had a certain street corner on the site and they had to film the action that went on for 30 minutes straight at the same time.  So we walked to our corner, I found a nice place to sit while josh stood on the other side and filmed (thankfully he didn't have a busy corner, because from the few people that we saw, they were giving josh strange looks).  10 minutes into filming, my camera doesn't have any more memory left, and Josh's phone was being a pain so we had to count things by hand.  I counted all the cars that passed on one side of the street and josh counted the other, he also had to count the people that walked within the corner.  Our 30 minutes was up, thank goodness, I was tired of counting cars, so we headed back up with the group to see how their filming went.  We found out that not everyone was able to film for the full 30 minutes, which made josh feel better, one person was only able to film 3 minutes and another 7 minutes.   Anyways the point of this exercise was to see how many people occupied the space which is called urban occupancy in the design world.

Finally we were done with the group and were able to head home.  We got on the tram and made it back to our apartment.  Considering we had no food at home, we decided that we would venture out and go out to dinner tonight.  So we went to the apartment first, put on a heavier jacket and comfortable shoes, these cobblestones are so uncomfortable to walk on and headed out.  We were going to go to this Mexican restaurant down the block from our apartment, but no one was in there and I thought it was closed (even though josh swears it was open).  So we continued walking towards the castle to find a place.  One nice thing about the restaurants here is that they have the menu displayed outside the restaurant so you know what they serve and prices.  We walked around, trying to decide where to go until we decided to go to this one place that had a special.  It was a small cafe with only another couple seating inside, others were eating outside in the cold (crazy people).  The special was a choice of soup, choice of either 2 dinner options and desert each for 190czk.  So we both got vegetable soup, Wiener schnitzel (I know the name is a little unappetizing) and a chocolate filled crepe.  Basically the original Wiener schnitzel is made of veal but we had the option of pork or chicken.  We both chose chicken, it tasted just like fried chicken and looked like fried fish but with the help of ketchup, I was able to eat most of it.  The French fries were my favorite part of dinner, they were delicious.  It was an interesting dinner but at least we came out with full bellies!!

Shout out to my dad!!  Happy Birthday, hope you had a fabulous day!  Wish we were there to celebrate with you!!  Love you lots!!


We visited Vystaviste which is an exhibition ground used for concerts, cultural events and exhibitions.  It was in front of the tram stop to the zoo so Josh wanted to check it out.

Josh's street corner, not much action going on