The End...

So we have now been home for about 3 months and I realize that there was never an ending to our blogging so I thought I would try to wrap it up just a bit.

We finished off our time in Interlaken with the bungy juming/cannon jumping trip which was terrifying. I think it was mostly that we had booked it the day before so all night I knew what was coming the next day. I woudl have been much better to of just been thrown into it last minute!

But we survived ... and you can see pictures of our jumps at the bottom with the larger pictures.

Our last day in interlaken we went white water rafting which was very mild compared to all the other activities but still very fun! there was a man on our raft that had to be at least 75 and he was having a blast with his daughter (who was in her 40's) . they were really cute : )

we left interlaken and took a train to geneva where we sayed the night and flew out the next morning. we were flying through london and this was the day after the car drove into a london airport (different airport though). so, we decided we should get to the airport extra early incase there were delays.

our flight was at 6:30 am and so we decided we should be there at LEAST 2.5 hours early - i mean it was an international flight - so we arrived at the airport 4am!
well, apparently the geneva airport is not open 24hrs and we had to sit in the dark waiting area basically completely alone except for a couple other people and the floor waxer/night janitor and wait until the counter opening at around 6am. what a waste!!

end the end we made it home safely and only had a minor problem finding michael's parents - since we hadn't brought (or needed) cell phones to europe - it was funny that we weren't back in the US for more than 5 minutes that we were all the sudden were really hurting for one!

we got home and barelly had time to catch our breath before we were off to st. pete beach for a long weekend to celebrate melissa and joeys wedding!

after all the wedding events we finally had a few days to relax! we were home about another week or two and then packed up the car and drove across the country for three days, finally arriving in los angeles.

we spent one month living in a temporary sublet in hollywood (rented from a woman named ayu who clearly did not understand the concept of subletting -- as she kept coming over to get things allll the time! which would make since that she would need to do that since she left what had to be at least 95% of her worldly possessions in our temporary home -- including all her toiletries, left over food in the fridge and her clothing in the drawers. weird.) we also traveled to seattle for michael and casey's wedding a week after making the move!

now, we just finally moved into our permanent apartment in Culver City a couple weeks ago and we love it! I am working downtown at a corporate design firm, Klawiter and Associates, and Michael is working at a Sports Chalet in marina del rey.

we all love our new home (including meeka).

i know this last bit has all seemed non-europe-related, which it is, but it has really all felt like one big trip. or, at least all one big adventure.

i think this very week when we finally got all our things settled and unpacked into the new apartment is when we at last felt we were somewhere we could call home and no long nomads!

from gainesville to tampa to european country to european country (10 countries in all) to tampa to a st. pete wedding to the hollywood sublet to a seattle wedding and back to hollywood and (FINALLY) to our culver city apartment! it has been a looong, wonderful, unforgettable summer!

...THE END...