Gah!

So, we were well aware that the whole Luxembourg move and the months leading up to it would be nothing short of insane.  Last week was quite enjoyable.  This week, the intensity began in full force.  Monday, we met with two moving companies who went through all our stuff and saw everything we own.  That was, um, odd.  It will be up to The Company to determine who will end up moving all of it.  Thankfully, both companies have plenty of experience moving bicycles and weren't daunted by crating six.  With that burden lifted, we have one less thing to worry about.

Yesterday, we met with one of the realtors and today we'll meet with the second.  We decide which one we'd prefer to work with instead of The Company.  When it comes to selling the house, we're a little overwhelmed.  The goal is to sell it before we leave so we won't be going through that from the other side of the Atlantic and a different time zone.  Of course, selling a house isn't quite like selling a table on Craiglist.  We'll just have to go with the flow.

We also started our French lessons yesterday.  Until we go to find our apartment we will be spending every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon at the Berlitz Language Center on Rockside Rd. 

Each lesson is 2 hours and 15 minutes.  Yesterday's lesson felt like four hours of the most intense workout I could imagine.  I still have a headache.  If I had a time machine, I'd go back to seventh grade and tell my geeky younger self to take French instead of Spanish with everyone else.  So far, all those years of Spanish in high school and college have done nothing more than confuse me.  For example, "Bien" and "Bien" mean the exact same thing in Spanish and French but are pronounced completely different.  I still haven't figured out why they don't pronounce half the letters in French words, which conflicts directly with the very phonetic Spanish.  Hopefully, by the end of these lessons I'll at least be able to order dinner.  Of course, in Luxembourg people also speak German and Luxembourgish (which sounds an awful lot like French).  German and French don't even sound like they're from the same planet.  

One language I'm pretty much guaranteed not to need is Spanish.

Anyway, the rest of the week is going to go in the same head over heels manner, so blogging is going to be quite sporadic.

However, there is another blog out there that will provide all of us a nice glimpse into what things will be like after the move is over.  Remember Melissa that we rode with on the Bike Aboard! adventure in August?  As it turns out, The Company sent her on a temporary assignment to Luxembourg that started today and will end sometime in January.  She will be blogging about it from here, if you want to check it out.  I, for one, will be checking it out regularly, and hopefully when we are there in November, we'll all get to ride together again!

Ok, I better get ready for the next realtor and listen to my French CDs...

It will all be worth it in the end.