Inge and Uncle Helmut

After the Underground Tour

Seattle Market

Super Hero Night @ Buckley's



Kayleigh with Uncle Helmut



Uncle Helmut in Seattle Public Market

At the Pig

At Kids house

This week we have had some very special house guests. Lonnie's mom Inge and his Uncle Helmut. Helmut has come from Austria for a visit of the states. They started out in Virginia Beach with Inge, went to TX. to see Kristian and Kristine, on to a few other states and hooked up with Mike on to us in Seattle and then back to DC to see Kim. It has been 16 years since we saw Uncle Helmut and he looks great. The last time we saw Inge was in DC in 2009 at Kim's wedding.  They got into Seattle on Thurs. (6/21) Lonnie went and picked them up at the airport, came to the apt and rested for a few and then off to dinner. Fri. (6/22) Inge and Helmut took the train into Seattle for a little trip on their own. and tonight we are going to go to Lonnie's cousin grand opening of her new shop. On Sat. (6/23) we got up and drove into Seattle, picked up the kids and went out in Seattle. We decided to do the Seattle Underground Tour.. non of us had ever done that and it was fun and interesting to see and hear about the fire of Seattle and everything they went through. After the tour, we walked up to the Public Market and just in time, it was starting to close. We then walked to the restaurant where we were having dinner.. we were early so went and had a drink at Buckley's on 2nd St. Ave.  They were having "Super Hero" night and EVERYONE was dressed up but us.. haha.. we didn't get the notice I guess. Dinner was amazing.. we had not had good Japanese food in a long time. Alex made the reservation at Shiro's Sushi. It was really good and if your in town you should go there and try it out. We drove back to the kids house where we met up with Nick, he had been up for a long time and didn't make it with us that day, but Uncle Helmut and Inge (Oma) got to see him before they left. We got back to the house and because we had to get up so early.. hit the hay. Inge and Helmut left for the airport in the early morning (3:30am) on Sunday (6/24) It was so good to see them again and I hope that we can make it Austria to visit Helmut soon.