It’s been incredibly hectic lately because I have had some major work to get done at the office and then today we have spent the whole day packing up for our vacation as well as the entire apartment so that we can move to Wolfgang’s place, the same vacation flat that we spent our first couple months in Germany back when first arrived nearly a year ago now.

I ended up staying at work last night until fairly late because I was trying to get all the last details coordinated before leaving. Last night also essentially marked the official hand over of the project to someone else for management after my departure. In some ways it is sad to have that chapter come to and end but on the other hand it’s always a good feeling to be moving forward. When we get back from vacationing in London and then southern Spain, my last couple weeks at work should be pretty slow and then we also have our office trip to Venice, which we will be joined by the office staff in Singapore. We are all looking forward to that and it will be great to meet the people that I’ve only worked with over the phone or email so far. I’m also looking forward to checking out the Venice Biennale and getting to know the city itself more intimately.

But back to today, we have put the German apartment back to what it was before we moved the furniture all around to fit our needs and everything has been pulled out of cupboards and shelves and we now have a massive mountain of bags taking up a good portion of the living room. It’s weird to see a year’s life stuffed into a small mountain of bags. Also scary to think of getting all that back through the airport. Well, some of that will be left behind but still, it’s a lot!

Soon Wolfgang will come to pick us up and take our stuff up to the vacation flat where our bags will live in the corner of some room while we are away on vacation. We will essentially be homeless for a week and a half.

So off we go, Wolfgang should be here any minute, to move our stuff and go enjoy our last vacation before heading back home to the states. Crazy, I can hardly believe the year is nearing the end.