travel to germany

we traveled to stuttgart, germany today to visit our friend kerstin.  on the map... everything seems a lot closer!  we ended up taking two trams, a bus (for four hours), a train (for two hours) and a car (for forty minutes) to get to her house.  so all in all a long day of travel.

but we are very excited to be here.  we feel like we know kerstin much better than we actually do.  we had chatted with her on email and read her blog before we even moved there and she was the first person we met when we moved to bishkek. we only got together four of five times together in kyrgyzstan before she moved back to germany - but we really connected (although she might disagree with that!).

much has changed in the year plus since we shared a farewell dinner at stari gorad so we feel like we are both catching up and getting to know each other for the very first time.

kerstin has a eight month old daughter named lenara who is complete cutie.  it is interested to see how much more developed she is than olive and for us to be able to better imagine what our daughter is going to be like in four months.

our days here will be pretty low key - which is nice after how active (well... except for nap day) we were in prague.  we are not sure how long we are staying.  our flight leaves on the morning of the fourth out of vienna. perhaps an extended stay here (don't be scared when you read that kerstin!)... or heading to munich where we have a couch surfing host... or off to vienna early (ikea anyone?).

we are excited about tomorrow and new years so not trying to look too far ahead and returning home.