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Salimarkles Have Arrived!

We are setting off on an adventure and I thought it might be fun to document some of it. Realistically, I can get to about 5 blog posts before giving up completely. So let's just see who this goes ok? We speak no German. Nor French. But luckily, a lot of people speak English. And we are supposed to be learning German - I say supposed to be because it's coming along very slowly so far.  Amaya's first Swiss German words were "schoggi kuchen" (chocolate cake) - she can be a very quick learner when she wants to be. First, we had to get out of Oakland though. I knew the moving overseas would be intense but those last few days were something more than intense. In 5 days we: - Moved out of our house, and then into two different rentals - Threw a going away party - Got our visas to Switzerland - Final dentist/doctors appointments - Sold one car - Gave back the lease for another car - Picked up a rental car - Got Daji off to his appointments so he ...