Wow. We left home on the 7th February and today is the 7th April. We've been in this country for 2 months, visited 13 states, seen snow, swum in the Atlantic, done the theme park thing,and so much more. Along the way we've met so many lovely, generous people and reacquainted with old, dear friends.
I am aware that many of you are praying for this time away for us. Thanks for your prayers. God has answered them as we have had so much time together, building memories, enjoying each other's individual differences and experiencing so much as a family.
Of course there have been hard times (despite our ever cheery blog posts!) It has been tricky sometimes in a RV when we are used to more space in a house. The cold has been hard to adjust to. I'm an introvert and there haven't been many chances to have time out. Navigating and driving a 30 foot RV have had their moments! Yet the benefits have far outweighed these 'light and momentary troubles'.
We have spent the day cleaning the RV and packing (we have 4 more bags than when we left Australia! Three of them are filled with sleeping bags, towels, saucepans, sheets,utensils and all our other RV set up stuff which we will need in Europe.)And, over the past few days, we have been eating all the food we have left. So, this morning, when the cupboard was bare except for rice, brekkie cereal and honey, I googled 'family restaurants Bellingham'. And so we ended up at 'Joff's Backyard Grill'.
What a find! The decor was 'outdoor furniture brought inside' and the guy was quite bemused to find an Australian family in his restaurant, asking questions like 'what are buffalo wings? and ranch fries? and black cherry soda?' But we ordered, and it was fantastic! Finger lickin good, in fact (and there was a roll of paper towel on each table, we soon found out why...) I'll let the pictures tell the story. Suffice to say, we had fun, talked about our favourite memories from the past 2 months, laughed, cried, and ate so much BBQ that we rolled out of there. A memorable last night!
Karen
Michael, I think there is just as much sauce on your face :D
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