The hardest part of making the decision to transfer to Boston was moving away from family and friends. So one of the things we committed to as mitigation was for Carol and the girls to spend a month in Seattle in the summer. This year that was the month of July. We all flew to Seattle on June 29. I returned to Boston (and work) on July 13, but Carol and the girls remained in the west until July 28.
I was worried that people would be busy and we wouldn't end up seeing very much of friends. But that was completely wrong. We had play dates almost every day with former preschool mates of Audrey and Charlotte. Plus we saw many of our old circle of Seattle friends. We hosted a party at Gas Works Park on a Sunday and about 50 people showed up. It was great to reconnect with them.
We also have good friends who have lived in Ecuador and Indonesia for years. They happened to be in Seattle for visits that overlapped with ours, so it was great to see Kathy & Mark and Jeremy. Kathy and Mark were in the process of moving from teaching jobs in Ecuador to new teaching jobs in Myanmar.
Audrey and Charlotte got plenty of time with grandparents and with aunts and uncles.
While in Seattle Audrey and Charlotte had a couple of sleepovers at my parents condo, and also several evenings of babysitting so Carol and I could have date nights.
After dropping me off at the airport for my return home Carol and the girls drove to Richland to spend a week with Carol's parents at their house a block off the Columbia River. Just about every day they took Grandpa's boat to "Car Beach" across the river to build sand castles and just hang out. They had a fantastic week at the Guettler house.
We also got to visit some of our favorite haunts in Seattle like Dick's Drive-in and Pegasus Pizza at Alki. We drove by our old house which hasn't changed a bit.
We were fortunate to miss the hottest weather of Boston's summer (so far). It became quite pleasant a day after the girls returned. We're in the middle of our second spell of pleasant temps and no humidity. The sticky weather will return, but it sure is nice while it's gone.
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