8 months later

For the last 8 months, David and I have been living in Georgia so that David could work in one of Georgia Tech's clean rooms. He worked very hard, but also a lot longer than he though he would have to. That is why we are just now returning to France. So, to make up for the last 8 months I will do a quick bullet list of things that I probably would have written about in more detail.

• Return home mid-December
• Celebrate our 1-year anniversary
• Celebrate Christmas
• Happy New Year!
• Phillip and Eileen's wedding
• Buy a Wii
  
• Celebrate Rock Dunlap's life
• Move David's parents into their new house
• Mom has total hip replacement surgery
• Trip to the Mountains
  
• Nathan and Rebecca's wedding
• Renovate my old bedroom - paint walls, put in hardwood floors
  
• Rocky goes to Colorado for the summer
• Finish Scuba certification
  
• Grandpa Pete's cuts off part of his thumb
• Ashley and Nathan's wedding
  
• Nurses come to stay at the house to help Grandma around the clock
• David's Dad buys back his old lake house - we go skiing, a lot.
• Grandpa move's to a nursing home
• Learn to slalom ski - ski a lot more
• Luke and Danielle's wedding and Kathryn and Matt's wedding on the same day!!
• Go hang out in Alabama
• Get Duncan ready to be sent to live with us!
• Accumulate TONS of family tree information to add to family tree software
  
• David's parents get their home theater set up
• Go to Florida to scuba dive
  
• Watch Olympics
• pack, leave.

Yep, that covers most of it. Since we have been back we have reestablished ourselves in our apartment. I think we've figured out and remembered where everything is. We haven't seen anyone we know yet (except for Audric who we saw ride by on the bus). Lots of our friends have left Metz. It's almost going to be like starting over.

One of the first things that happened to us when we stepped off the bus at the train station was that we were approached by a man handing out brochures about his church. This is particularly interesting because we think we might have already heard the pastor of his church one time at the other church we were attending. After he visited we told each other that we wished we knew where his church was because #1 - his French was easy to understand and #2 - he taught with a lot more scripture than the pastor/other people that were teaching at the other church. So, we are going to try to find them this Sunday and see how we like it. It will even be closer to where we live - maybe we won't have to ride the bus 3o minutes anymore!

Tomorrow we will journey over to the Technopole to get our carte de sejour renewal paperwork ready. Then we're going to start looking for a tv that will work with our Wii! And all the while I will be checking the weather back in Georgia to see when Duncan can be sent to us :o)

More later.