yes – for those of you wondering – Susan’s parents are in fact here. They have been for most of June now. It’s 6.00 and I’m about to drive them to the bus station to catch their airport shuttle so they can head back to Canada. We have had a great visit – and we are incredibly blessed to have family that are willing and able to come and visit us here. One of the hardest things about living so far from family is looking up one generation and feeling like you are taking away their grandchildren, and looking at your own kids and feeling like you are taking away their grandparents. We have been very blessed that my mom was here when Alma was born, and now Susan’s parents have both got to meet her.
I know I have basically posted nothing during the past couple of weeks – so here are some pictures of a hike we took when they first got here – with more updates of our other adventures shortly.
American Village
Who says you need to go to the states to get a real American experience?
Well, I do for one.
That’s not awful – it’s a falafel
Last week we decided to head down into the city and spend the day there as a family. So since getting there is always half the fun – we rode the tram downtown – which is something that never seems to loose its novelty for our kids
We hadn’t decided exactly what to do (museum etc.) but we settled on eating lunch out somewhere. Since we don’t tend to eat out a whole lot – this is a bigger deal that one might imagine -and with 4 kids in tow – it seems like most things we do are now a bigger deal than one might imagine.
Really couldn’t ask for much more than that.
well that was nice of them
I was just out running this morning in the middle of the French countryside (a couple hundred km’s from home – so I have no idea what’s around me) – I had run about 8km and figured I was probably heading back towards where I wanted to be, but I had been on a fairly random combination of hiking paths, roads, and farmers fields so I wasn’t really sure.
Then I saw this – and figured I was indeed on the trail that I should be on.