In case you haven’t heard, Katie and I have officially accepted positions to teach English in South Korea for the next year. We sent all our documentation over yesterday, so we’re now in the process of getting our work visas approved. We will start work at the end of August, so that leaves us with just over a month to pack up our lives and ship out (which means we’ll probably be around to watch Bob Costas gush over Michael Phelps’ olympic dreams, but not for the first game of the Michigan football season, sadly).

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So, we have been married a few weeks, in case you didn’t already know. We’re going to have lots of wedding pics up on this site within the next week or so, so you should check back later if you’re interested. We’re also going to put up photos from the party this weekend if all goes well. In the meantime, check out some of our other photos (which are still quite behind the times: no graduation photos, either!). I promise we’ll get better at this with time.

On our way to see His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, it became apparent that cell phones would not be allowed into Crisler Arena. It was a good thing I remembered a few things from the International Spy Museum, because I orchestrated a dead drop to myself. That bush over by the Plant Ops building looked innocuous enough, and I was pleased to find my phone still there a couple hours later, despite poor technique on my part—I could have been made!

After the big snow storm New Year’s Eve/Day, Ann Arbor looks beautiful. I couldn’t resist taking a few pics for posterity. Check them out.

So, as you prolly already know, we’re all home safe by now. We took our separate and unequal transatlantic flights and tiredly arrived back in Michigan. Nick opted not to wear his Dutch wooden shoes through security. Greg thought JFK airport was less than impressive. Katelyn managed to get all her bags out of storage and to the airport.

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