May 21 - Karkonoskim Park

Connor, the escapee

    So this morning as we were getting ready to head over to Cesar and Mira's house for breakfast, while daddy was hanging laundry and mommy was getting ready, I looked around and Connor was MIA, this is where I found him, he had crawled himself OUT THE DOOR!  He was just out there, playing with some sticks and in the dirt, like a boy.  Lucky he was not far away and there is nothing dangerous out there (like a pool) so I really wasn't worried, I though it was rather funny. Silly boy.  There was a snail though a few feet from him though, might have been worried about that.

Breakfast

   When the Polish do breakfast, they are serious about it.  We went to Uncle Cesar's house for breakfast.  We got to meet Michal (prounced mee-how and is Michael in English) who is his youngest son, his other sons Tomek and Pawel were also there.  Aunt Mira had made bread for us, there were meats and cheeses, breads, drinks.  So good!!  We were there for a while which was nice, all the guys got to visit while Cocia Mira played with Connor.

Chris, Jon, Connor, Tomek, Michal, Cesar and Pawel

   After breakfast we went on a hike in Karkonoskim Park.  Now I dont have much information on this park since all the websites are in Polish.  But this hike is not for the weak.  I give props to Jon, who carried Connor is is Bjorn all the way up and all the way down.  It took us about 3 hours to get up there and it was steep at times, but the views were beautiful.  I could post many more shots but I'll take up too much room :)

Church at the bottom of the trail, completely wood

Family's all here, lets hike!

A view from about the quarter of the way up

Yup thats snow behind us

Many creaks thru here

Prince Caspian is hiding in here :)

Cousins Chris and Pawel

Small waterfalls for Mom :)

Finally!  At the top!

Amazing cliffs

   It took about 2 hours to get down and it was alot easier, but it was hard on the knees since we were going at such an incline.  Connor slept the whole way down which was great and I was educating Pawel about "Glee" (that was a funny conversation between two people who don't speak the other's language well.  Just put on "Jump" and he understood the music lol) Again, thanks to Jon for carrying the Happy up and down this insane mountain. 
  After that we did some Polish sledding.  Now this is a metal track that is on this mountain and you literally sled down it, on a track, with breaks and no seatbelts.  I'll admit that I was a bit scared and wasn't sure how fast this was going to go. I went with Jon first who went easy on me and it actually wasn't that bad.  I went a second time by myself but Jon should have gone ahead of me for I was breaking too much.

Hooking up to the track that takes you up

Im gonna die for sure

One of many loops

Eating Polish ice cream. . .yum

It was an awesome, yet exhausting day. Connor fought going to bed tonight but he finally crashed around 9.  I can already see the "don't put me down" phase coming about from all the holding he is getting from his Cocia Mira. No worries though, we'll get him right outta that when we get home.

Tomorrow. . .PRAGUE!!!