All Things Come To An End...

Eventually. Let's hope it's not my career. For now, at least, it is just 2008/2009 hockey season. The Whitehawks lost their hard fought series in Game 7 on Tuesday evening. While the winning team is gearing up for the semi's, my wife and I will be packing up, saying goodbye and preparing for a trip to Espana, where Elizabeth can show off her spanglish (aka, crossword spanish).

The past five months have been so many things...

Good - The easy access to European travel and the schedule to make it happen.
Bad - Being here while the weather stinks. We missed August and September and now we are leaving when it's starting to get good again.
Good - Being able to spend a lot of time together, it has been like an extended honeymoon (woo hoo).
Bad - Too much time together, as we missed our family and friends while being 4,408 miles away.
Good - Elizabeth has finally learned how to COOK.
Bad - Rob is no longer allowed in the kitchen.
Good - Learning about a new culture and meeting new people.
Bad - Not understanding a word they are saying and watching the same four english channels on TV.
Good - Learning how to live with minimal items.
Bad - Not having curtains, sleeping on the floor with two mattress pushed together, and lack of certain kitchen essentials (we burned our hands quite a few times).
Good - Having Skype (it's free)
Bad - Having to use Skype as your sole form of communication back home
Good - Great Bakeries with a lot of treats
Bad - Great Bakeries with a lot of treats
Good - Starting the blog
Bad - Barely updating it (we will get better)

Now that Rob is finished with hockey, it's hard to just sit around and do nothing. This will be a problem since our flight back home is scheduled for April 5th leaving us with three weeks to kill. We will kill some time by travelling to Spain, but we hope to schedule our flight to Chi-town a bit earlier. We will keep you posted on our ETA, we look forward to spending time with everyone we missed since we've been gone.