Just a quick blog to let everyone know that we are back in Knoxville. Our travel was safe and stress free, and the kids handled the nearly 4 hour flight very well. We flew into Nashville on Sunday and spent the night at the Gaylord Opry Hotel. It was nice to walk around the gardens. We were even able to take a boat ride in the hotel around some of the gardens. We rented an SUV to take us and our heavy luggage the rest of the way to Knoxville. We found our house where we left it in pretty good shape. Cats looked happy and healthy and we spent a good amount of time cleaning up mounds of cat hair from the beds and furniture.
It was good to catch up on mail, especially Christmas letters. The kids finally got to open up some of the gifts that were sent here, rather than in Washington.
I'll wrap it up for now. There are lots of events of the last hectic week that we'll want to blog with more detail. The last photo album (OSP/Theo) covers sightseeing that Karen and the kids did in Seattle. And I also want to reflect more on my experience at Eastside Community Health Center. But in the meantime we are also trying to catch up on 3 months of "life", plus dealing with a slow internet connection - so we will do our best.
