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29 April 2007

Jan-April wha' happened??

So, I've been emailing a lot of you lately for your life updates. How unfair of me to not have one about us to share with you! Well, here's my attempt to make up for our lack of blogging over the past months.

Maybe this will explain a little about why we never seem to blog anymore...

January 2007:

  • Renee switches to using Gmail to manage her work email, chaos ensues
  • We get the idea to go to Morocco...trip planning starts
  • Renee takes weekend trip to visit brother Chris' ex-girlfriend, Nicole, who's been living in a Swiss mountain village and working for the UN / World Health Organization for several years - lots of catching up was had (and many doggie kisses from Bu!)
  • Work, work, work!
  • All expense paid Google ski trip in Courmayeur made the past month of hard work all worth it (yes we actually had snow!)
February 2007
March 2007
  • Morocco trip plans nearly finalized
  • Renee is working weekends now, demanding schedule persists...another 2-day work trip to Dublin
  • Renee & Stefan get active in the Google Zurich Environmental group
  • We visit Prague for a weekend and stay with colleague Marcin & his wonderful girlfriend Lucie
  • Renee learns that a lot of girlfriends back home and one in CH are pregnant :-)
  • Our work travel schedule gets intense: Davos for 2 days, Switzerland for 2 days, Seattle for 1 day, Mountain View CA for 5 days, back to Switzerland...(continued)
April 2007
  • ...then Renee to Rome for a 3-day biz trip and finally we head to Morocco for 7 days (holiday at last - completely amazing! check out the photos )
  • Renee moves to the new Google office, Stefan stays at the old building
  • Work is tolerable (especially right after vacation ;-), Renee finds a great person to join her events team but has to wait until June
  • Weather is like Summer already - amazing warm days, no rain, where did Spring go?
  • BBQ season takes off with a bang (literally) when the Böögg's head explodes in 12 minutes (see our photos)
  • We start riding our bikes to work - Google gives us helmets and free bicycles!!
  • We spend hours and hours and hours doing our taxes on the weekend
So...there you have it. We haven't been sitting around doing nothing after all!


Future plans include:
May 2007
  • Stefan goes to Brussels for a week-long leadership training course
  • Renee heads to London for 4-days of biz
  • We have a couple 1-day holidays (thanks Switzerland!)
  • Stefan's dad will visit us again and we'll all go to Heidelberg to see where Stefan spent 2 years growing up
  • Renee will manage a 3-day event in Zurich called the Anita Borg Scholars retreat to honor women in Computer Science
  • We will finally finish sending our thank you notes from the wedding (OUCH!)
June 2007
  • Bridgette Kingsbury will visit us - yay!!!!
  • Cyndy will have a wedding celebration in Seattle!!
  • Renee & Stefan will head to Mountain View mid-June and then vacation in Seattle for the 1st week of July
And much much more!

We love and miss you!! Call and email us with your news!

(No mail please...save the trees!! Watch this and you'll understand why)

Hugs,
Renee

posted by Renee at 13:15

   

 

 

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