Farewells

We had to say some goodbyes this weekend. The other company family that was living in Isahaya returned to the US (via Australia) on Sunday.

We spent a glorious afternoon at the park saying good bye. We had lunch in the azalea park and the blooms were wonderful. It was a short hike (about 300m) up the hill to the park. The blooms were delightful and covered the hillside. We had to wait for a space big enough for all of us to clear to have lunch.

The kids ran around and played. RC and I shared some onigiri (delicious). After some nice chatting and wonderful picnic food, we came back down.

Chrys and Owl ended up playing with the boomerang in the field. They were doing pretty well with it. They pitched it into the bushes a few times but always got it back. Roo had the best time running...and running...and running. She talked with a couple of other babies.

We came home to find a box of goodies on our doorstep. We had been warned of the delivery by the "Sayonara Fairy." Lots of useful things (the bags were the right ones, D) and some stuff we'd never tried before. There were also some bonus packs of mac 'n' cheese powder - yum! We had missed that.

We will certainly miss having the I's around. They were great help getting us going here and for that, we owe them so much. There was a little bit of envy that they get to go home and we weren't yet 50% of the way through, but our time will come. We've much more to explore just fewer people to explore with.