Free to ski, you and me...

Amazingly, we've started to think about our next home exchange after we get back to the States. We're interested in finding a big house where we can bring Jon's parents, since they weren't able to join us here in Norway due to Larry's illness. Although looking for a new home exchange is fun, I'm reminded that Jon's Mom has always wanted to come here and she is missing her chance.  I don't think even the most brilliant home swap this fall could make me feel better about that. OK, not totally true - a huge estate on a private Greek island with a live-in masseuse might just erase those bad feelings afterall. Barring that, we know that Jon's parents would enjoy a ski house where we could play cards and some of us could ski, and we could all spend some time together relaxing.  Our Norwegian exchangers explained that many of their friends would be thrilled to have a house with a pool, so we're hopeful that it will be easy to find a family in Colorado (Jon's first choice). Now that we've discovered this amazing home exchange lifestyle and have seen how much our kids have grown from the experience, we won't be settling down anytime soon.

One of the local ski areas in Stranda, Norway.