We're currently matching our energy levels with our three-year-old twin granddaughters and their big sister.
After a pleasant few days serving as guides to our visiting Aussie friends, Ross and Jenny, complete with a day trip to Vancouver, lots of walks, visits to Thai restaurants and a crash course for them in Washington State and other wines, we find ourselves suddenly back here to help out while daughter-in-law Dana looks after an ill parent.
Tentatively next on our travel agenda are back-to-back trips to Quebec and Hong Kong, another packing challenge to allow for one locale in the mid-40s and the other in the mid-80s (Farenheit).
In the meantime, we're enjoying spending some time with Avery, Lily and Peyton.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.