Chicago, here we come!

fianlly, the hectic period is mostly over. the wedding was a big success, everybody had a good time, and nobody had a nervous breakdown ;)

we drove to chicago a couple of days after the wedding, and started settling in our new apartment. the original plan was to move in 2 weeks BEFORE the wedding, and then go "home" after the wedding and be all settled in... in reality, we had to learn an important lesson: when renting an apartment from private owner (=condo), be extra careful with the dates and promises they make. the short story, is that the apartment that we signed the lease for was not ready on time, we had all our stuff there in a truck ready to move in, and the apartment was just a big mess. we got really pissed off at the owner, so we broke the contract and rented another apartment, which is a nicer but smaller. we put all our stuff in storage and drove back to cadillac to get married.

the wedding was very nice. the ceremony was really moving - a lot more meaningful (i think) than the ones i saw in israel...
after the wedding we drove to Canada for a day and a half (the plan was to go there for a few days, but since we DIDNT move to chicago 2 weeks before the wedding we had to cut the "vacation" short, and go get into our new place.

we drove to chicago (11 hours from the cabin in canada!) and started unpacking, buying furniture and getting our stuff out of storage, etc. we bought a ton of stuff at ikea (elinor, you would have loved it!). they have a store here (in the suburbs) with 3 floors, it's absolutely huge.

then we flew over to Seattle for the AAS meeting , which was too big, and we had almost no time for anything besides attending/giving talks. too bad we didn't have time to see the city at all. we had plans to go to the "space needle", but each time something came up, we had to meet people and work on urgent things, and fly off... it was not too cold, and not too rainy, so we didn't even have to open the free umbrellas that we got for registering to the meeting. i guess they figured that everybody have enough conference-bags to open a small store.

anyway, we are now back in chicago.
we went over to ikea again, to replace a table, get the cushion for the armchair that somehow escaped our cart somewhere between the shelf and the cashier the last time we were there, and to buy the bed that was out of stock the first time we were there. amazingly, it all fit in ben's honda. amazing.
i will put on some pictures later, promise. but to those of you who cant wait and want to imagine, we have a corner apartment facing south and west, with wall size windows. it's very small. the carpet is grey, and the furniture are dark brown. except for the armchair, which is almond. the kitchen is small, and the bedroom is small, i guess everything is small except for the windows ;)
we still have a few boxes that will have to go back to cadillac...

we still sleep on an air mattress, but we have a home :D