Calm Before the Storm

Carissa put in her required 4 month notice at the end of April which means we'll be home around the 1st of July (unless I luck out and get really good job offer then I may leave early). We've had a great time, but now that it's official and we basically know the date we're leaving we do sort of have one eye toward home.  In the meantime, we are going to try and see as many of the things left on our list as we can.

Knowing this, the past week again was pretty laid back.  The weather here has been fantastic, at least for this area.  I think we had sun 5 days in a row, which is definitely a record since we've lived here.  Temps have been in the 40s and 50s which has felt great.  Saturday it actually climbed into the 60s and we took advantage going to the market in Weiden in the morning and then the streets of Amberg in the afternoon.  Both towns were busy with people enjoying the beautiful day.

Amberg Rathaus

Ice Cream in Amberg

Today we did a little spring cleaning in preparation for a welcome string of guests that will be visiting starting tomorrow with our neighbors the Knowlans.  The kids could not be more excited since the Knowlans have two girls the same age as ours and spend a lot of time together back home.  They will be here for a couple days and then Wednesday night we are all leaving for a 4 day weekend in Vienna and Prague.  The Knowlans leave on Monday and will be followed by Luke and Courtney, Chris and Zack, Carissa's parents and finally the Koch's (hopefully) which will bring us to May.  At that point we'll have 6 or 7 weeks to sell all our stuff, pack up, and head home.  Oh yeah, and somewhere in there we're going to need to find jobs and we may take one more trip over Memorial Day weekend.  It will be exhausting but will be a blast.  I'll do my best to keep up on the blog...