Our time in Idaho is coming to an end, it is surprising how quickly it began to feel like home for us here. We are excited to be done with our training for MAF and are looking forward to the next chapter in our lives, but leaving and saying goodbye is never fun.
Last Saturday it was a beautiful day so we decided to do some exploring and check out Camelback Park in Boise. The fall colors are so much more vivid here than in Washington (the evergreen state).
Check out this view we had from the top!
Macie was a bit too much into her granola bar to look up and smile. Sitting on Mom and Dad's shoulders burns a lot of calories I guess.
We found a snake along the path all stretched out in the sun, and of coarse Mike had to grab it's tail. This made the snake mad and it coiled up and hissed at us! I have never seen a snake do this to me in real life. I did not like it. I need to toughen up when it comes to snakes, word on the street is that they are MUCH bigger in Tarakan, Indonesia.
I realized that this weekend was probably the last time I will feel comfortable. The weather was perfectly in the mid 70's and all I had to wear was a t-shirt and shorts. We are moving back to Washington where it will be cold and rainy and then to Indonesia where it will be very hot. So mark it on your calendars: October 25, 2013 is the last time I will be at a comfortable temperature outside until our next furlough in a couple of years. (I'm not being dramatic at all right now). :)
Monday and Tuesday Mike fly out to the backcountry in the mountains to finish his flight training in preparation for Indonesia. He took some pretty cool videos while flying, stay posted we will have them up soon.
Colton and Macie were super excited to watch him land and come home! Mike says that it is bittersweet to be done with his training, because it will probably be another year before he gets to fly a plane again (we have one year of language training ahead of us).
To celebrate Mike's return and say goodbye to our favorite Nampa hangout, we went to Messenger Pizza for dinner. We will miss Messenger Pizza dearly. We have figured out that there are 3 must sees in Nampa, ID: MAF (of coarse), Messenger Pizza, and the Flying M coffee garage.
Mike still needs to debrief with his flight instructor tomorrow morning and we have to pack up and clean our apartment before we can head home to Washington. We expect to be home this Friday. Yay!
Our timeline for leaving Indonesia is not set in stone yet, we still need to raise about $800 per month in support before we can purchase our tickets to leave. It looks like the soonest we will be able to leave is the end of January. We will be spending one last set of holidays in the states (Yay)!
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