At the end of July, Gianni and his family came to visit all the way from Belgium. Gianni was the King’s foreign exchange student during Ashleigh’s senior year of high school and our last year of college. Ashleigh and Mark flew in from Colorado so we could all spend some time together. It was fun catching up with Gianni, getting to know his beautiful wife, Emeline, and their two sweet kids, Aiden (11)  & Rose (7). Silas and Aiden became fast friends, and Layla and Rose, whose English is not as fluent as Aiden’s, played a lot of Barbies together with the help of an iPad and Google translate.

We took everyone to Bainbridge Island aboard Everlong one day and spent another being tourists in Seattle. We had a great time and look forward to seeing them again!

At Proper Fish, on Bainbridge Island

These two headed to Boy Scout camp mid-way through the visit

We took everyone to Seattle to do the touristy things. Realized it was also Layla’s first time there!

Watching cheese get made at Beecher’s