Home sweet home

We added to our list of firsts this year with 'first inter-continental trip home for Christmas'. The trip both ways was very long, but thanks to modern technology you can watch movies and drink wine the whole way. And we were sitting in economy! Christmas and New Year's at home was great (apologies to Pullman - we will post pictures once people email them to us!).

Our first stop was Marin for Christmas. We did a fair bit of hiking with the dogs (and the Mom) and managed to go for an overnight bender in the City with Cameron and Craig. We also did the traditional inappropriate x-mas cookie contest at Helen's and fondue at Katie's.

A few days after Christmas we flew into Seattle and tried to hit as many of our favorite restaurants as we could in a day and a half. We then packed Casie's grandmother Millie into the rented Jeep and (very slowly) crossed the Cascades to get to Pullman. It was a successful drive but not without quite a few white knuckles on my part! We saw quite a bit of the whole family in Pullman and even managed to go sledding in near gale force winds.

It was hard to say goodbye to everyone, but we hope to see everyone soon on this side of the pond.