{back in new hampshire}

i'm back in new hampshire, friends! i'm happy to report that our flight to zurich was perfect and our flight from zurich to boston was great, comfortable, and i had terrific passengers nearby so that was especially nice. i watched ice age: meltdown and the new Mummy movie and also watched this great documentary about Swiss designer Yves Behar who lives in San Francisco and did this gorgeous art/lighting installation at a CA airport. I really loved learning about his work in depth, it was great, I am very much a fan of his work so hearing him talk and explain his inspiration and how he works was extremely inspiring.

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i made sure not to sleep and the moment we arrived in boston we were surprised by our good friends who brought us flowers and an entire bag filled with organic, delicious gourmet style foods from Whole Foods (my favorite grocery store here) and German wine. Tammy and Danny are such good people. We live an hour north of the airport so when we got home we realized we had been awake for 24 hours straight, but we decided to stay up and sort through all of our mail (some of it shown here, add a few more bins to this image!), unpack, etc. Then we awoke this morning around 10am, no jet lag at all, and went to run errands, unpacked, mailed our gifts to friends, called our family in Boston, Rhode Island, and Florida, and then ran to Target for some DVDs and some basic stuff like laundry soap, etc. since we are getting a snowstorm now and may be snowed in this weekend. BUT I may brave the storm and go to the movies tonight to see Twilight. I'm dying to see it. And another nice treat today, we went to Starbucks to see our 3 favorite baristas in the whole wide world and they were all working the same shift so we saw them all at once. It was so nice. I love those girls. They were so excited to see us too. It felt really nice to be welcomed home. Oh and knock knock! Our neighbors just knocked on our door as I'm typing this with a homemade casserole to welcome us home. How nice! So we're back in New Hampshire and though haus maus will have a different focus until we're in Germany in May, I hope you'll continue reading and I'll talk about our life here and share photos, etc. when I can. xo, Holly