Celebrating Independence Day

 A trip to Greenwood Lake and Ross and Alina's place.
Meeting up with new friends...

 Last time when Alina introduced us to Leslie she described her as "almost on of her best friends"...a joke we continued to refer to again today :).

Michael her husband is English/Australian /US green card holder :) and a great friend of Ross's. Lovely to listen to their stories of their antics teaching in Queensland.

Neighbors called in for the BBQ

 ...and other consultants stayed the weekend.

This beauty has a nest somewhere nearby (in the green tree said Michael) and kept visiting often.