Translation of grübeln

This website helped me learn French. Although most of the users intend to learn either Spanish, German and English some users come here to learn French. I met a few people that helped me with it.
I'm so happy that you wrote to me and I miss you! We are doing great. We have settled in very fast. Luise is going to her kindergarden, Sofia to University and I'm going to work driving my car every day.
We arrived at the next hotel, which was only two blocks away, again deciding from the outside, that we would not sleep there. I questioned the short ride, because on the map the two places were far apart.