See ya St. Petersburg! Пока!

До свидания!(Good bye in Russian)

We're leaving for Finland and America this week. We'll spend a couple of days with colleagues in Finland before flying out of Helsinki to the States. We're full of all kinds of emotions as we leave. Cam has been here nearly 6 years and I've been here 3 years; this is where we met and have lived our first 2 years (almost) of marriage. We're saying our 'see you laters' (I'm not good at saying Good bye), and have shed a tear here and there.

We're very excited to be arriving in the States right before Thanksgiving and spending the holidays with my whole family (there are 5 of us Barrett kids, plus my mom and dad and all kinds of grand-kiddies and in-laws).

Here is a picture of the Barrett family the day after Thanksgiving 2004 (I'm not pictured because I worked the day after Tday- biggest retail day of the year. Stinker, would have been a great picture). Notice all the Norwegian sweaters? Some of them were handmade by my grandma and other family members in Norway.

Good bye to all our lovely friends in Russia. We will miss you and we hope to see you again some day!! Please keep in contact and check our blog regularly for more fun and adventures with Cam and Sonja.