Family Evje Travels

Well well if it isn't the middle of April. How the time does pass. This month it is my turn to write the update (Alex). March was another fun month here. Some highlights: We took a train from Karkow to Prague for a long weekend to see old friends of ours Jack and Agata (another Polish-American couple). The train was a fun experience for the boys, even if it was a little long for mom and dad (6 hours basically). The boys got to go in the front of the train with the driver. Monika and I have known Agata since the summer we met in 2008! (My god we are getting old). Prague continues to be a gorgeous city with excellent Czech beer; but it is no longer the cheap diamond in the rough it once was. It is very much on the tourist circuit now. We spent lots of time with our friends, including touring Jack's workshop where he makes prosthetics and puppets for the booming Prague film industry. So cool! We also did lots of walking around the Old Town and massive hilltop castle complex. Adam...

  Hello everyone! Hi, Alex Evje is writing this month ( except for parentheses, which  is Tyler ). In February we did lots of fun things. We went to this fun place called Energylandia. It's like a Polish version of Disneyland. It was really cold there but everything was Christmas themed. It has lots of fun rides. I made a Christmas ornament there. I went down a really fun big slide. My mom went down the biggest roller coaster they had there. It was called Hyperion. We also went skiing two times in the Polish mountains. The first time was in Zakopane and the second time was to a place called Male Ciche ( Tyler: which literally translates to "small quiet" ). We stayed in a little mountain cabin in the forest. In the evening we made a campfire on a mountaintop with a view and made kielbasas and smores! My dad brought the parts for the smores from America. There were lots of other kids there and we all did night-time sledding. When we were in Zakopane we went through an ice l...

Hi, it’s Adam. It’s my turn to do the monthly update. January was cold and pretty miserable. We were sick for about half of the month, and during the other half Tyler was in the U.S. for work - but even while he was away, we still did some cool things. One big event, and a huge achievement for Alex, was passing his BELT test at Taekwon-do. It was a very special moment because we traveled to a different school in Krakow, and the whole group had to perform in front of a new teacher. We are very proud of Alex for passing his Taekwon-do exam, and he now has a white belt! Another important event to mention is the annual Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP), which takes place all over Poland. This charity has been collecting money for 34 years to purchase medical equipment for Polish hospitals. The funds mostly support newborns and older children, and many generations of Poles have already benefited from the life-saving equipment provided by this foundation. Every year, on the thi...