Filling the Calendar

The less-frequent blog posting which you may have noticed could be a sign of the following:
        a.) General apathy towards posting due to a lack of reader comments
        b.) Nothing blog-worthy in our life
        c.) A full social calendar leaving no time for blogging
        d.) We don't want to or cannot tell you what we've been up to

Answer: C.

You may have noticed in previous posts a lack of new friends in our lives...this would be accurate. Haha. This is not a bad thing as we have each other and we've done a lot of traveling and organizing of our apartment. And we have such amazing friends back home the bar is set really high. No worries, though, we have finally made a few good friends here - or we at least we've found a few people we'd like to be good friends with.

This week Katie, Charlie, Stephanie and Ben are coming over for dinner. Katie is the only other person in our office my age (the next youngest is 9 years my elder) and Stephie is fresh off the boat, also my age. While it may have seemed weird to you all that we planned a wedding in 3 months and immediately move abroad - it is the norm here. Katie and Stephanie both planned their weddings quickly and got married within a month of leaving the States for Tel Aviv (their husbands being Charlie and Ben respectively).

We've also been networking, contacting friends of friends of friends. Last week Paul met up with some friends from Georgetown, one who happened to be visiting here and one who lives here. And we went on a blind date! We met up with the brother of Paul's friend's friend. His wife is great and I'm excited for her to hang out with her again! (For those of you counting at home, she would be 5 steps removed from me. Wife, brother, friend, friend, Paul).

Also packed into our schedule was a visit to our colleagues house to hear his band play and watching the World Cup projected onto a big screen with colleagues from another office.

So you see, we've been too busy making new friends to blog about out massive tomato plants (3ft tall!), exploring the Fashion District, or making our amazing apt feel like home! Those posts will come later...