The british is coming, the british is coming!!

We received excellent news! Our soccer coach from last summer who we all loved so much is coming back to visit this summer!  Thru the soccer program the boys do for a week in the summer, we have the opportunity to host a soccer coach for the week of camp. The coaches all come over with the program from England, Ireland, and Scotland. During the course of the summer, they travel to different towns, some of which they stay at a local college dorm (yuck) and some they can stay in a family’s home. They stay at your house, you feed them, and hopefully make a new friend. Well, we were so lucky to have Graeme as our houseguest. We all loved him. He was so great with the boys as a coach and so great living here for a week. Even Timmy loved him. He ended up going to Conneticut after leaving here and stayed in the US until November. So after he left us in August, he came back a bunch of times for dinners and to hang out/stay over. He was supposed to go back home to Liverpool in mid November, but we somehow convinced him to come and stay with us for another week in November and join us for his first Thanksgiving dinner. I think he had a great time and really enjoyed the gluttonous American holiday! The whole extended family really enjoyed him and his stories. He really fit right in. We even took him to his first pro ice hockey game which he dug (except for the breaks in play for commercials on TV- he was disgusted by that!). We kept in touch since November via email and a few phonecalls. I sent him some Abercrombie stuff for Christmas, along with some brownies and he sent the boys some awesome Liverpool football (soccer) jerseys. He will be working for Microsoft in September (into the real world) so he is doing some travelling this summer, and he decided to come and pay us a visit! (Well, after me bribing him with sushi, carvel, and a thousand other good foods, and the promise of the beach/pool/nyc everyday, plus a good dose of Jewish guilt thrown in). He is going to Japan, Thailand, LA and then to us for 2.5weeks in August. We are all so excited. Can’t wait to hear that accent in person again. Uh-huh. I know. An abercrombie model. Even if he won’t admit it! Can’t wait to see you Graeme!