We fly to Crescent Moon in just 1 week from today! I am beyond excited!!! I am already packed and have Z's things packed as well! I keep adding things as I think of them, but if we were to leave right now I would have plenty of stuff. And, there are Wal-Mart's there so I can always buy more if I do manage to forget anything. (Side note: I am more excited about Wal-Mart than you can imagine because Germany doesn't have them. It isn't the prices I miss, but the constant availability. Here if you want sandals, for example, you have to buy them during a 3-week window or you are SOL. That sucks! Especially for impulse shoppers like me. I have become a hoarder because I am afraid I might not be able to get X again if I don't buy it RIGHT NOW! And, often times, it's true. /side note) D still hasn't packed, but he claims to be able to do so in 30 minutes flat. We shall see! ;-) Actually, he will only be there for a little over a week, so it won't be so hard for him. I will be away from home for 3 1/2 weeks, so I need a bit more than he does! Thank goodness I am as low-maintenance as they come otherwise I would have too much luggage to handle! As it is, for 3 1/2 weeks, I packed all of my stuff & Z's stuff into 1 large suitcase! I weighed it the other day and my scale said it was 31.8 pounds! YES!!! And that is including a heavy book I am packing for a friend of the family to off-set some books I know I will be bringing back home with us.
The only "worry" we have is getting enough cash (in good $100 bills, of course). We live in Euro-zone, so getting US cash is anything but easy. Especially when it's such a large quantity! D is handling that because he can stay calm easier than I can about stuff like that. ;-) I also got an email late last night that we need to watch a 40 minutes video on "bonding & attachment" and have a teleconference with someone at our agency before we leave. Nothing like last minute!! D thinks it's not a big deal, but I am freaking out because I feel like this week is already jam-packed with stress and activities and trying to find time to do that just isn't ranking high on my priority list. If it were up to me, I would watch the video and then email and say that we watched it but we just don't have time in our schedule for a teleconference. If it was important to them, they should have given us more advance notice than 1 week! But, I'm sure D will win this one....
I guess I forgot to mention, I took all 3 kids to the Embassy last Thursday (DJ's birthday) to pick up our visas! (D was on a work trip or I would've gone alone) They were not cheap little things, but compared to everything else we have paid, they are not much. DJ & L were a bit crazy on the drive to the embassy, which is sad because I was planning to take them to the dinosaur museum in Frankfurt for DJ's birthday if they behaved. Then I said that maybe instead we could have ice cream after I got the visas, IF they were good in the embassy. Nope. :-( The passport photo machine and the spinning glass doors were just too much for them to handle. Instead we came home and DJ wanted BK for dinner, so we got it to go. Ah well....
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