So… um… we moved. Far away. Far, far away.

Ok, so it’s nothing new that I go for weeks without posting anything here, but this time, I have a gem of an excuse.

We moved. To Germany.

But wait… weren’t we already in Germany for the summer?

Um, yup. But that was, as far as we could predict, only a vacation. We were *hoping* we’d be able to move, but it was only a hope. Applications had been filed a few months earlier, and some signs were good, but there was nothing to take to the bank. We were going to move out of our little house in Denver anyway – it was too small for two adults and a baby (after nearly two years of having him in our bedroom, it was *ahem* time for us to have some privacy and for him to have his own place to play) – and so we packed up and prepared for any eventuality, which is why I was so damned busy at the end of June. There was no certainty about whether it was going to be across town or across the ocean, which is a really sucky way to pack, let me tell you.

Well… a couple of weeks ago, while we were at my in-laws’ place, we got the news – C got a job at arguably the best university in CS in Germany, and so now… now we live in suburban Munich.

This has all gone so fast you wouldn’t believe it – we found an apartment online one day, moved into it two days later, and have been running around like chickens with our heads cut off ever since. And we’re quite lucky – the apartment is great, the location is fantastic (20 minutes by bus/train for Christian’s new workplace, and 20 minutes by S-Bahn from Munich Central Station, not to mention incredibly child-friendly, a 3-minute walk for us to the grocery store/post office/city hall/train station, and quiet), and all in all we’re quite happy.

Internet-less and exhausted, but quite happy.

More when things get settled and Deutsche Telekom decides we’re worthy of being connected to the rest of the world.