the good life

Part of our great scheme in coming home from South America for a few months around Christmas depended on the good will and mercy of our friends and family who would, whilst we have no home, have to take us in and play with us. We are enormously blessed to have our loved ones, and the big thanks this year goes out to all of those who have put us up and made us feel at home in what is surely not our home. Namely, to my sis and bro, Leah and Joe, and to Tom's bro and (nearly) sis, Patrick and Hannah: you are wonderfully generous, and we would be homeless and far less entertained without you.

We had a great five weeks in Omaha, and Tom and I were both really fortunate to have super jobs for such a short time (thanks, Tony and Annemarie!) and a pretty perfect living situation with Pat and Hannah, who remind me of me and Tom when we first met (i.e. so in love they are rarely seen apart; in fact, just rarely seen).

While in Nebraska, we played with all our friends, visited the smallest town in the state (Monowi, population: 1), went to Brian's river cabin for a weekend, hung out at the Homy Inn, got some good time with the fam, ate delicious french food I can't pronounce, delicious spanish food I can pronounce, and a little bit of everything else. It was a refreshing few weeks, lucrative and relaxing all at once, freezing, but only outside; all in all, owning up to it's motto, Nebraska really is the good life.

Thanks to all our friends out there who make it that way!

Pat and Hannah on their seriously comfortable couch

the sullivan boys

the sullivan's girls

welcome to Monowi. Used to be double the population it is now.

we found this sweet bike out in a field outside Monowi

The bar and it's owner -the One who resides in Monowi

and then we found a bathtub in a field

The Missouri river on the border of Nebraska and South Dakota. It runs clear blue and beautiful up there.

Up at Hansen's cabin, April and I made a pie and assembled a 1,000 piece puzzle while the guys did manyly stuff like changing the oil

and knife fights

this is gus, Brian and April's 8,400 pound st. bernard

and that's the good life.