One day we went to the airport and rented a car from Panek, a car company. Then we went to Decathalon and bought a lot of camping gear. We packed all our stuff up in the car and hit the road.

Our first stop was this touristy town called Zakopane. It’s like the Vail of Poland. We stayed in a little town just outside of it. There was a trampoline and the cutest little sheep ever! There was an electric fence for them and Decker kept electrocuting himself.

One day we did this really long hike down a mountain. It was a bit too long.

The next day my mom went on a hike and my dad took Decker and I to this awesome rope course. The course had two zip lines and stuff like walking on logs and tires. After that he got us slushies!

In the next town we did this cool raft trip and camped. My parents went cheap and didn’t get a tent.

I’ll skip the next town because we didn’t do anything worth mentioning. After that we were driving and my dad saw people on horseback galloping and then a sign for a ranch. We turned and came to this cute little ranch. We talked to this guy and he told us we could stay for two nights. The next day we woke up early and got on horses. There were two tiny foals that were really cute. I got to ride a mama horse and the little foal followed me around wherever I went. It was so cute! We rode for and hour and then had breakfast. We stayed there another night and then hit the road again.

Our next stop was Bieszczady National Park. We did this long hike up a big mountain. My dad was really mad because Decker and I were supposed to complain 1/3 of the way up so he could “be a good father” and bring us down. He really didn’t want to hike so he was going to go off of us. But we didn’t complain so he was mad.

After Bieszczady we did a long drive to Budapest, Hungary. It was so cool! We stayed there for 3 nights. One night we got on a little ferry and went down the river. We got to see the castle and the Parliament Building. One day we hiked up to the castle. It was so, so, so hot. We got a view of the whole city and the castle wall. On the way down we passed this cool playground. After Budapest we drove back to Krakow and returned the car.

This is the soundtrack of every single hike.

From Prague we took a train and a bus for 6 hours and arrived in Krakow, Poland! My parents told Decker and I that we could each pick a place in the world and we would go there. I chose Poland.

In Krakow we did this cool, long bike ride. Our final destination was an old monastery. On the way we stopped at this cool white water kayaking course that had a pool. The course wasn’t turned on but it was cool to see it anyways. We were going to go in the pool but you couldn’t wear boy shorts! We kept riding and got to the Tyniecka Abby. It was cool but we were so tired that we ate lunch and started back to our hotel. On our way back we went to the “Magical Turquoise Lake”. It was so pretty! We all swam and my dad and I jumped off a rock. In all the bike ride was 7 hours.

On July 28th we took a plane from Chengdu, China to Prague, Czech Republic. We stayed in a really cute neighborhood in Prague and on the first day there was a great farmer’s market. We stayed in Prague 4 days. My parents had ordered this cool package from a company they found. It came with two books for Decker and I and a book for the parents. It is a company that has three-day tours that you do yourself. In my parents book it had everything like maps and information about where it was taking us. In ours it had questions about the places we went. The books took us to castles and churches. We went to a famous bridge called Charles Bridge. We also went to this wall called Lennon Wall. It is a wall where you can wright anything you want. It was really cool. Decker wrote his name, my dad wrote BoPaT (A fake business my dad and his friends have) and I did a peace sign. There was some really cool stuff there. In the kit we got they provided chalk and I gave some to this little boy. He drew scribbles all over everything else. Most of the stuff on the wall was spray-painted.

The Charles Bridge was really cool. It was so touristy that we could barely see anything. We also one day went go karting. It was so much fun! You got ten minutes on the track and then you switch. It was a giant course. My brother and I went together and we raced. Decker kept going around the turns too fast and he would spin and stop. The people who worked there had go and help him.

We also did this cool boat trip on the river. We rented a small motorboat and cruised up and down the Vltava river that flows through Prague. I got to drive it.