USA summer

Since the end of July we have been living in Redmond in the USA. We will be here for 6 months until January 2019, at which point we will be heading to Christchurch in New Zealand for another 6 months. 

It's big here ! the distances, the cars, the charity shops, (some of the) people.....

Since being here we have: swum in lakes as much as possible

visited a volcano

dyed our hair blue (one of us)

explored Seattle

We are currently deciding whether the kids will go to school while we are here. They are trying out this week at the Clearwater school, a democratic 'unschooling' school in Bothell. Not sure yet if they will stay. I think it's been a bit of a culture shock for them. It's been interesting to see how un-self-directed they are. I'm trying to encourage them to take control of their daily activities, and trying to restrain myself from being over-organising !