6 Months left! Counting down...

I can hardly believe that we are in the homestretch of our assignment to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. April 4 will mark three years since we landed here as a family of two, and sometime in early August we will return to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH as a family of four! We will be in Dayton for seven years while B completes his PhD and then stays on staff as an instructor at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). It will be so nice to purchase a home and really get to know the community we're living in. We loved living in Dayton before moving to Germany, and I have a number of friends still in the area that I'm looking forward to reconnecting with. I just can't wait (realistically, I just can't wait to get back to the States, the fact that we're going to Dayton is just the cherry on top). Now, with a light at the end of the tunnel, we are planning the last of our trips. Last year, right after finding out we were expecting J, we booked a few very memorable trips. I hope to blog about them at some point, but until then,...we spent five days in Rome, eleven days in London and the English countryside, and four days in Normandy with our good friends, the Perry's (the 12 hour drive when I was 36 weeks pregnant might have been a little long in retrospect, but the memories made there are just priceless). Baby J joined us in September, and once his passport came in, the first stamp (figuratively, of course, they don't actually do that) was to Belgium where we spent the three days after Christmas visiting Brussels and Brugge. Now, we have scheduled a trip to Holland to visit the famed Keufenhof tulip garden (B's mom, Brenda, will join us for this trip as she'll be here visiting), Disneyland Paris as a last hurrah with the Perry's before they leave Germany at the end of April, and finally, a road trip to Venice, where we will hop a seven day Mediterranean cruise hitting Greece, Turkey, and Croatia. That will take us to mid-May, with a whole two months left to fill! Both of us created a "must visit" list when we arrived, and I think most of it has been checked off, with the exception of Poland for me. It's within driving distance, I just have to decide if there is anything there in particular I care to see. So, we will see where the last of our travels take us! Prague? Barcelona?  Ireland? Tic-toc, the clock is finally winding down...