So much happening...so few posts

Sorry to not connect for a while; it's not because we are sitting around doing nothing.

Last week we made some decisions: we decided on an apartment and decided on a car. This means we can arrange our move and convert our remaining dollars into a couple of Euros to buy the car. We will stay in our current apartment - by moving out the 'temporary' furniture - and moving our furniture in tomorrow. We get to pay rent and storage. We now have a huge container in NC, Munich, and our space in Neuhausen.

As for the car, we bought a Volvo xc90 with every feature they offered. The salesman said the pope drives this model.... thereby proving car salesmen are the same all the world over. (c'mon, the current pope was previously the cardinal of Munich... and you expect me to believe he would drive a Swedish car?)

I had a 46 hour trip to the USA starting Sunday so Daph and the kids went to the zoo and had fun. I was only allowed to go since I promised to bring back:
- two packages of oeros (daph)
- skittles (David, Brian)
- Bon appetit, Living magazine (Daph)
- Henricks gin (Daph)
- tiger beat magazine (Julia)
- pad of drawing paper (Brian)
- more candy (David and Brian)

We have the movers bringing our stuff beginning tomorrow (TH), we pick up the car Friday and the temp stuff goes to storage on Monday.

In addition - I have to travel again Friday (overnight) to Paris to recruit at Insead (don't yet know the shopping list for this trip) but we have tickets to the Oktoberfest on Saturday.

Updates should be coming!