Arriving In France

 

Today we arrived in France. Well, I mean after a 4-hour plane ride. Once we arrived, we quickly realized that it was extremely windy. I had to hold on to my hat all the way to our Uber. After a 30 min drive, we got close to our Airbnb and walked the rest of the way (yes I was holding on to my hat then too).

Once we unpacked and settled in, we went to get croissants. When we finished our croissants we walked over to a tourism building to find things to do. Mom and Dad decided to take a walking tour but we cut it short (thanks to me 😉). Then we chilled at our Airbnb until it was time for dinner. For dinner, we went to a nearby restaurant that turned out to be a Chinese restaurant... oops. Piper and I both got noodles with beef, Mom got soup and dumplings, Dad got beef and onions, and Kyla got duck. (By the way, the pictures are weird because I forgot to take any other pictures in France)

The 3 Days Of Torture

 

I'm not going to do much of an intro but here are the 3 awful days that we did (only awful to me for some reason):  

1. The zoo. Ok, now I'm the only person I know who doesn't like zoos, but the day when I found myself in a car on my way to 4-5 HOURS at a zoo, I almost died (mentally not physically.) The first thing we did was walk over to a bird show where birds did a lot of tricks for 30 min straight (this was the only part of the zoo I didn't hate). After that, we spent 3-1/2 hours looking at animals while Piper took 187 photos on my phone (these are 0.03% of them). Finally, we went to the zoo restaurant and got the worst food in my life. Their pasta had no taste, their hamburgers were crap, and I don't even know what the soup tasted like because I lost my appetite. 

2. The car ride. This one was going great until we got to our 2nd to last stop where we had to walk about a mile to a small waterfall to eat a bad lunch, and then back a mile but this time UP hill to our car. But at least we got ice cream after that. 

3. The tour. This one wasn't that bad, but it was soooooo boring and I slept (or tried to sleep) for around half of it. But now it's all over and we had a day for a break.

Arriving In Cyprus!

After 3 nights with no good wifi, today we finally arrived in Cyprus. We are here for 6 days and it's surprisingly warm. In Cyprus, there are cats everywhere. We saw these cats just on the first day!!! Our hotel/apartment is very nice too with a pool, good wifi, a full-on kitchen, and comfy beds. Since we are here for so long with no plans, here is what everyone wants to do:

 1. Piper wants to bake the whole time. 

2. Mom wants to explore Cyprus the whole time.

 3. Dad wants to do whatever Mom wants.

4. Kyla wants to.... well, I don't know.

5. I want to play at the pool and pet cats. 

But somehow I think Mom's going to get her way.

Me And Pipers Day Alone

 

Today me and piper had a day alone because dad, mom, and Kyla went to Petra again. After they left I did a blog post and piper worked on a math lesson. Once I was done with my blog post I took a small nap break while piper kept working. After I was done with my nap break I did 2 of my math lessons (because mine are short and pipers are long) and then me and piper lessons to some music before going to lunch. Now this lunch was weird because we went to a restaurant by ourselves (mom left us some money) I did all the talking and we both got cheese burgers. After we got back we asked Google random questions before mom, dad, and Kyla got back.

(I don't have any pictures for this one sorry)

Our Time In Petra

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while but this is the first time in days that we've had wifi. So now I'll tell you about the torturous time we had in Petra (the ancient city that is carved out of stone.) Well, okay, maybe it wasn't torturous for anyone but me, but still I hated it. It started with us stopping at a local super market for some snacks to help us keep going in Petra. After that we walked over to the main gate of Petra to buy our tickets, then after saying no to the free horse ride that made you tip them anyways so it was not actually free we began to walk down the stairway to hell, or at least that's what it felt like. While walking we saw a lot of holes in the stone that were somehow religious. And after like an hour of walking and looking at holes in stone, we made it to the one part of Petra that was actually interesting to me (I mean besides the stray cats,) the Treasury. It was pretty cool, I liked the small details in it but sadly no one was allowed in😥. Then after literally 5 HOURS of walking around we finally decided to walk back which was awful because I could barely walk anymore and all I wanted was real food and not more salt and vinegar pretzels (they are not as bad as they sound.) But finally after a lot of walking (with one ice cream stop) we were able to sit down and eat an early dinner.

Arriving In Egypt

 Finally we made it to Egypt, it was hard but we did it. The main reason it was hard to get here is because we hade to wake up at 1:30 am to catch our flight, but all list all of them (not including that one) 1. Kyla vomited at the airport, 2. We had to go though security 5 times, 3. our flight was 1 hour late 4. the flight was 5 hours, 5. it was really cold when we got to Egypt. But when we finally got there we had to wait like 3ish hours to get to our room because we got there extremally early. And after all that time we got to our room and relaxed (if you couldn't tell the image's above are our room.)

Our Beach Break

 Now, I know I have bean posting randomly but now ill tell you about the place where we are staying right now and what we do here. On the first day we did nothing but swim in the pool, eat, and do homework. On the second day we planed to go to town but me and piper got into a fight and then we just walked out to a beach island. The third day we went snorkeling, me and piper got out first because nether of us have any body fat to keep us worm. The forth day we walked to town to eat pizza and gelato but on the way there dad stepped on an sea urchin. Finally the fifth day mom, dad, and Kyla went snorkeling again but we and piper stayed at the hotel and did homework. (P.S. I when swimming in the pool every day.) So that is what we did in this hotel, and after this is Egypt!!!!!!!