Many of you remember Rie Nagaoka, the Japanese exchange student who lived with us from fall 2000 to late spring 2001 as an exchange student from Japan. She turned 16 while in Missoula, but she's now 24 and working full time. She came with a friend of her's who is an American from Cincinnati, but who works in Japan.

We have kept in touch over the years, and she still calls us Mom and Dad.

She and her friend Eric came and visited us for 4 days.