Rachel, Matt, and HannahHelen and Andy and their three beautiful children came over to our house to visit last night at about 7PM (actually I picked them up from the train station). They are, of course, friends from Nottingham, England who we met through downsyn.com. The kids (AND the adults) were all tired after a long day of sightseeing and although Kenneth’s mom, Maureen, invited us over, it was a little too late and everyone was tuckered out.

We got to have a nice chat with them, though. Rachel is a charming little girl, Matt is very sweet, and Hannah is a little darling. Matt was quite taken by our fish tank. Mikey was not in the best form, unfortunately. At first he was very sweet and seemed to fall in love with Rachel. He signed “girl” which usually means Beth but when Beth tried to go with him he just pushed her out of the way and went to Rachel. So Rachel and Mikey sat on the couch together. Mikey offered her some yogurt (which she didn’t want) and then some cheese crackers which she did want. At first he was a little gentleman but as he got over-stimulated with all the new faces he started pushing and becoming aggressive. Part of it was that it was approaching his bedtime and it had been a long day for him (he fell asleep in 15 minutes when I brought him up) and part of it was all the new people.

Rachel and I were the first ones up this morning so we had a nice chat about school and dogs and what she likes to watch on the telly. Everyone got up a little after that and the kids went for a swing with Andy. Mikey had to get ready for school and catch the bus so he wasn’t able to play on the swings. We got them off to the train station for the 10:30 AM train without any problems. Except that they forgot their camera! Yikes!!! So Michel is going to take the train into Manhattan later and give them their camera. What a good egg Michel is!!!

Anyway, their trip to the USA is rapidly coming to an end with their flight back from Philadelphia tomorrow. I hope that they had a great time in the US. It was fantastic meeting them and we hope to see them again not too far in the future.