bloggy back up

The PICS are up   (3 years late, but whatever)
the theme today in my house might very well be procrastination. Actually, it not truly procrastination, just that it's too blasted hot to do anything other than sit in front of the fan.  The kiddos won't let me focus enough to sit and read, so this was the next best thing......

If you've ever glanced at the blog archives on the right column, you'll notice it goes all the way back to 2007.  But wait, we didn't move over here until the Fall of 2008?

In the summer of 2007 as a graduation present to yours truly, D cashed in 3 weeks of leave, we deposited C with the grands, and armed with nothing more than a backpack each, German rail passes, a guidebook and a cell phone as an emergency contact number, we hopped a flight to the continent.

The blog was born because we didn't have a cost effective way to check in with grandma on a regular basis and because I wanted someway to preserve our immediate memories.  Although we hoped we'd get stationed over here,eventually--you never can tell with bees--and who knew when/if we'd ever get back.  At the time I was teaching an on-line class, so we had to find a computer cafe every other day for me to check in with my students, so it's not like it took that much extra energy to also blip a note to the blog to keep everyone back home up to date.  HOWEVER, I had no easy way to add in pictures.  BUT, I do now, so  this afternoon I did . . . finally  (btw, in the pic leading off this post D and I are in the Prague Royal Gardens and it is the *only* pic of the two of us together)

 Hard to believe now, after doing Europe with two kids in tow, that we traipsed around sans reservations (sans any real plans, for that matter). The thought : we'd leave home, fly into Germany and then head to Berlin, Prague and Vienna. The reality: we flew to England, via Spain, spent a week in East Anglia visiting Mildenhall, Ely, and Cambridge, plus a day in London. Then onto Berlin and Prague before we headed back to Germany to fly home.We spent 5 days in transit back and forth over the ocean waiting on flights, but since the price was right and the leave plentiful, we didn't mind waiting.  We've seen a lot of Europe since we've been here, but still Prague and Berlin are two of my favs. (Mildenhall too was fortuitous 'cause there's a lot to love about East Anglia, but it's not like anyone ever plans a trip there).

We tell ourselves, now, when we begin to fret that we won't have time enough to do it all while we're here, that before we blink the kids'll be in college, D'll be "retired" and we can space-A at will.  Heck maybe we'll even be lucky enough to score a 2nd European assignment before then and this blog'll turn into the travel blog that never dies.   Who knows?