England and Idaho

Wow, it has been a while. We decided to escape the Pucon winter and went to England in June and July. Abbey got into Oxford for a summer high school program, so we changed our plans of going to costa rica and instead went to England as a family. We tried a new website called trustedhousesitters.com and were able to book several housesitting assignments throughout England. It worked out pretty well and we had free places to stay most of the time. I highly recommend this site if you are traveling. England was quite impressive. The castles, abbies and mansions were amazing. Everything there is so old and everything is made of stone. So cool. Bolsover castle was definitely the coolest thing we saw. We all loved that castle. Mikey and I did jiu jitsu along the way. Met some great folks. Ate some great food. The food in England is awesome. We had some world class thai food and fish and chips. The nicest town we saw was definitely Oxford, where Abbey went to school. Just a beautiful city that was not bombed during WW2, so many old, beautiful buildings. Exeter was nice. York was nice. All in all, it was a good family trip and was nice to be all together again after a crazy 2 years. After England, Mikey, Jak and I went to see the Brown family in Idaho. Jak was happy to see Sofia and the boys again. We did lots of jiu jitsu and had some great talks. We helped Sam's dad a bit on the new addition and learned some stuff about building. It was a lot of fun and I hope we can do it every year. We are now back in Chile and spring is here. The paddle boards are out. Warm weather is here.