During the last half of July and the first two weeks of August, we were based out my of parents home in York, PA. During that time we traveled to NY twice and to to different places in PA. The rest of the time seemed like it was filled up with packing our 14 pieces of checked luggage and all our carry-ons. It was a huge project!
Our kids absolutely loved my parents trampoline. I think my mom took 100’s of pictures of them jumping together.
I celebrated my birthday with my parents. My mom and the kids made a lovely fruit basket for me.
My dad bought everyone baseball gloves and spent a lot of time playing catch (with baseballs and footballs) with the kids. Then there was the nightly baseball games – girls against boys.
One day we went to the Indian Echo Caverns near Lancaster, PA. Unfortunately we got a bad flat tire and ended up needing to be towed. We still got to the caverns while waiting to be towed.
My dad made sure we were fed well. He was always going shopping to buy us more food!
We visited a lake two times to go swimming. The kids also went to First Night York.
Right before we left one of my parents’ neighbors came and did an amazing fireworks display right in our backyard. It was great. The also gave us hundred of sparklers to use – our kids had a blast.
The girls enjoyed playing with my dolls and wearing my old dresses. Becca made a skirt with my mom with some fabric Becca brought from Cambodia.
We had a lovely time with my parents and are thankful for their generosity in housing us and giving us three bedrooms with 5 beds (plus pack-n-play) – no one had to share a bed and every kid had a space to call their own, and that makes a big difference in everyone’s happiness level. And a big thanks to my mom for all the pictures her took – probably almost 1000!
I think this wraps up our furlough travels. I need to do one more blog to document our travels back to Cambodia and then maybe one to take time to reflect on our time in the States. But we’ll see……