New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Picture one: Harmony and her grandmother
Picture two: In Starbucks with John and Katie (Harmony's brother and his wife)

Since Briant did not end up going to the the planned training in NC, we got to spend a couple extra days with Greg, Gretchen, and Sophie in NC (Briant's sister's family). In NC, we took the time to fix the air conditioning in our Pontiac for the third time. (Is it still working, John?) Then, we headed north. We saw Harmony's old college roomate and her husband in Baltimore and Harmony's grandmother, cousins, and aunt and uncle in NJ. Our next and final stop was Bethlehem, PA. We got to spend a couple days with Harmony's brother and sister-in-law, John and Katie.

We left our car in PA with John and Katie and flew back to AR on June 24th. We already had one way plane tickets from Raleigh to Tulsa (via Houston). So, we had to buy more one way tickets from PA to Raleigh for that Saturday morning. Our second set of tickets went through Washington, DC. It was somewhere between the 4 flights and 5 airports that Briant got a serious case of food poisoning which landed us in the ER that night. I (Harmony) must have cought a stomach bug while staying up all night in the ER worrying about Briant. As soon as Briant started to recover, I got sick. Thankfully, I was not near as sick as Briant was!

With the exception of Harmony's dad, we saw every other member of our immediate families in June. That's pretty impressive! We'll make up for not seeing Harmony's dad starting August 22nd. That's Harry and Kathy's arrival date in Bamako, Mali.