Tomorrow morning our plane leaves for our five weeks abroad. None of us can quite believe it. This trip has been years in the making, and to have it actually happen is really strange. However, we’re all very excited. Who wouldn’t be?

The last two weeks have been a bit chaotic as we gathered together everything we needed to spend five week abroad. Only one of our phones is new enough to work overseas, so after opening that one up to global calling, we bought a burn phone so we can keep in touch with each other. We’ve got phones full of music and backpacks full of books. We have a handful of SD cards for our cameras and about three handfuls of batteries. We notified the bank that we were traveling internationally so they wouldn’t cry “Fraud!” and lock our cards, traded dollars for euros, made sure everyone had enough clothes, travel-sized bathroom supplies, power adapters, plug adapters, appropriate walking shoes, and luggage tags. For the last two days, we’ve been cramming everything into four carry-on suitcases and a four backpacks.

We’ve also spent a lot of time cleaning the house for our house-sitters and cataloguing everything they need to do to take care of the small zoo of animals we have.

Add in a surprise root canal and a minor horse injury you have our last two weeks.

Fortunately, with 18 hours until our flight leaves, everything is ready to go. There won’t be a post tomorrow night as we’ll still be on a plane, but we’ll see you in Paris on Sunday!

Au revoir!