Busy Times Ahead
It's good to be home. Even though Connecticut won't be home much longer -- it feels nice to be in familiar surroundings again. I slept well in my own bed last night.
This morning the moving company is coming to take an initial survey of our household goods. Next Monday through Wednesday they will come to pack and load. Between now and then I have a huge pile of things to take care of. I made list after list while I was in Munich, and I have them all in a little Engrish notebook that is indispensible to me now.
The biggest things on my mind now are getting ready for the movers (which involves separating what we want to take to Germany from what is going into storage), getting Ziggy ready to go (I don't even know everything this involves yet), and selling the house and car. But I'm putting off the car until after my big farewell driving tour of the East coast, which will be coming up in a couple of weeks.
So there's still plenty to stress about, but it's nice to be back this morning and to know that things are approaching the end now. In a week or so I will be out of this house, and things will really start happening. (As if they weren't happening enough already.)
I enjoyed Munich last week. It's a nice city, and I feel comfortable walking around there and taking the public transportation. I've never lived in a city before, but I think it will go all right, especially once I have my German back. I used it some last week, but I am very rusty. I plan to take an intensive language class at The Goethe Institute when I arrive in Munich. That should be plenty to get me started...
So, here are a couple of pictures I took while I was over there. On the right is a fountain in the Alt Stadt, close by the Hofbräuhaus and the Opera House. Below is a view of the Rathaus, which stands in Marienplatz and houses the famous Glockenspiel. It's not really the leaning Rathaus of Munich, it just looks like that in my picture for some reason. But you see how absolutely gorgeous the weather was, at least for a day or so. I expect summer is the nicest time of year there, so I'm glad I got to spend some time there now. By the time I go back, toward the end of August, I expect it will feel like fall is imminent.
It's good to be home. Even though Connecticut won't be home much longer -- it feels nice to be in familiar surroundings again. I slept well in my own bed last night.
This morning the moving company is coming to take an initial survey of our household goods. Next Monday through Wednesday they will come to pack and load. Between now and then I have a huge pile of things to take care of. I made list after list while I was in Munich, and I have them all in a little Engrish notebook that is indispensible to me now.
The biggest things on my mind now are getting ready for the movers (which involves separating what we want to take to Germany from what is going into storage), getting Ziggy ready to go (I don't even know everything this involves yet), and selling the house and car. But I'm putting off the car until after my big farewell driving tour of the East coast, which will be coming up in a couple of weeks.
So there's still plenty to stress about, but it's nice to be back this morning and to know that things are approaching the end now. In a week or so I will be out of this house, and things will really start happening. (As if they weren't happening enough already.)
I enjoyed Munich last week. It's a nice city, and I feel comfortable walking around there and taking the public transportation. I've never lived in a city before, but I think it will go all right, especially once I have my German back. I used it some last week, but I am very rusty. I plan to take an intensive language class at The Goethe Institute when I arrive in Munich. That should be plenty to get me started...
So, here are a couple of pictures I took while I was over there. On the right is a fountain in the Alt Stadt, close by the Hofbräuhaus and the Opera House. Below is a view of the Rathaus, which stands in Marienplatz and houses the famous Glockenspiel. It's not really the leaning Rathaus of Munich, it just looks like that in my picture for some reason. But you see how absolutely gorgeous the weather was, at least for a day or so. I expect summer is the nicest time of year there, so I'm glad I got to spend some time there now. By the time I go back, toward the end of August, I expect it will feel like fall is imminent.
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