Hello all! We wanted to keep you all updated on our latest adventure… We recently have embarked on another journey…a road-trip to see family and friends. The goal of our trip is to see our Grandma Mavis in Michigan. We haven’t seen her since our wedding, and recently she had some complications on her knee replacement. So we really felt we needed to visit her and soon. So off we went (with a few stops along the way)!
We left Monday morning, and made our first pit-stop to see our friend and fellow Campus Outreach Thailand teacher, Kristen. We enjoyed beautiful Columbia, South Carolina with it’s wonderful weather! Kristen’s family was very kind to let us stay the night at their home.
Our time was short, but we made the most of it! We shopped, made a wonderful spaghetti dinner, met up with her friend from high school, watcher her dad play tennis, walked around the beautiful lake in her neighborhood, and played a fun game of “sequence” with her family! It was fun to see her and reminisce and talk about the future! Saying goodbye was tough. She is going to be in Thailand for another year before she comes back to the States again. We will continue to keep her in our thoughts and prayers.
Tuesday, we were off to Cheapeake, VA to visit Katie’s brother Chris and friend Becca…
Katie and Becca ran to greet each other in the parking lot!
We went touring Virginia Beach…Can you hear the ocean?
The three of us with the beach in the background. It was freezing!!!
Another playful pose between Katie and Becca.
We are staying with Katie’s brother Chris in Chesapeake. Chris will be deployed soon - out to sea in the NAVY on a sub for about 6 months, so we wanted to see him before her was off. More family is headed up tomorrow for a mini Jackson-5 reunion - Kate’s parents (Chris and Anita). and Kate’s other brother (Mark) and his girlfriend (Amanda).
We will update on the family reunion weekend before we head off to Michigan on Sunday!
Much Love to all!!
