The Eagles Have Landed
After three exhausting but incredible weeks in Italy, we've made it back to St. Louis. We already miss our Dublin friends and hope everyone is doing well. And we've already had a great time catching up with our St. Louis crowd. It's surreal being back in the states during the springtime. Temperatures are already nearing 80, and I can feel my allergies springing back to life. We enjoyed a nice turbulent thunderstorm early this evening - the first time I can remember seeing lightning since we left in 2005.
As for our settling process, we're frantically searching for a house right now, and will be starting our car search soon. Nate starts work again tomorrow, so most of the searching will take place on evenings and weekends - talk about hitting the ground running! I have a job interview on Friday, so I'm prepping big time for that. At least we have mobiles though - on Saturday, not 24 hours after we landed, we went into the mall and left 2 hours later with mobile phones! It took us a month to get our mobiles in Ireland, and at least three or four trips to the Vodafone store on Grafton. It was a lovely and wonderful thing to get a mobile phone on our first try - my parents were wondering why it took as long as it did!
We'll be updating you on more stories of our reassimilation, and hopefully posting a few pictures just as soon as possible.
As for our settling process, we're frantically searching for a house right now, and will be starting our car search soon. Nate starts work again tomorrow, so most of the searching will take place on evenings and weekends - talk about hitting the ground running! I have a job interview on Friday, so I'm prepping big time for that. At least we have mobiles though - on Saturday, not 24 hours after we landed, we went into the mall and left 2 hours later with mobile phones! It took us a month to get our mobiles in Ireland, and at least three or four trips to the Vodafone store on Grafton. It was a lovely and wonderful thing to get a mobile phone on our first try - my parents were wondering why it took as long as it did!
We'll be updating you on more stories of our reassimilation, and hopefully posting a few pictures just as soon as possible.
posted by Megan and Nate at 7:50 PM
2 Comments:
Welcome home, world-travellers! I bet it feels like a time-warp to be back in St. Louis. What a wondeful and amazing adventure you two have had... Truly, it will make for a lifetime of stories for you and your kids!
Definitely - it is a little bit of a time warp! Sometimes I feel as though I never left, like Dublin was an awesome and elaborate dream. Other times I'm thinking, "Whoa, I've been gone a while!" Very strange, this reassimilation.
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