we are back and already relatively rested after our odyssey (planes from pittsburgh to paris to frankfurt and an ICE train to dresden-neustadt, if anyone is terribly concerned) tumbled us into bahnhof neustadt at 8:04p on tuesday, august 30, a far cry from the 6:35p flight we took on monday, august 29.
in addition to numerous first-time adventures in the US, my luggage was lost! another first. i told the baggage claim dude at frankfurt and they'd already gotten a notice that my luggage was still in paris, probably feeling pretty jet-lagged, shabby and not knowing a word of french. today i got a phone call and it should be delivered any minute now. god bless luggage tracking and that there is an airport in dresden, which greatly sped up the ordeal.
before we visited the US, our engagement was one of those late-80s glamour shots with blurry edges or a dream sequence in a sitcom. now, we have a date and a venue and a photographer and a dj and officiant in the works. my main goal in the whole scheme of our wedding is to stay calm. i never thought that would be a problem but as it turns out, sometimes wedding planning is stressful. we're not even doing 99% of the things that the commercialized US insists that most engaged couples do, and it's still amazingly, strangely stressful.
the doorbell just rang. it was my luggage!
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