January 17, 2006

Countdown: Less than 0.5 days!!! :)

I leave work in less than an hour - then I'll pack up my stuff and we'll be on the Rhino tonight to head out to Stryker! Tomorrow morning - we'll hop on a plane to Amman, enjoy the day out there at Jerash and then it's off to Germany on Thursday!! Yay!

I've found out that Mike does not know how to pack. I came home last night to find Mike with the largest suitcase we had packed full of his clothes. He had seven pairs of pants (not including 2 sweatpants and including 3 pairs of dress pants). He had two pairs of dress shoes, three blue & white pin striped shirts, etc. etc. Needless to say we'll be skimming that down a bit tonight. They allow for much less luggage when going from international out. We'd be paying up the wazoo for what he wanted to bring! I'm hoping to fit all my stuff in one carryon bag. We'll see.

I will be bringing my laptop with me so we can hook up to the internet occassionally. It'll be $10/day of use so I'm sure it won't be a nightly event...but we will keep in touch! We'll also take lots of pictures so look for those later too! If you're interested in seeing where we're going - this is it!

We gave Tim some going away surprises since he'll be leaving before we get back. We got him two books: "The Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Marriage" and "Thai for lovers". You have to realize that Tim got married while he was on R&R last time to a woman he met on his previous R&R and this is his 4th? 5th? marriage. He also doesn't speak Thai and she doesn't speak English. So both presents were meant to be funny/useful. He took them lightheartedly. We also gave him a silver zippo that has a map of Iraq engraved on it. One of our locals was nice enough to obtain that for us. He's a smoker so we thought that would be a nice momento from everyone. He seemed to really like it.

Well, Mike's rushing me out the door! We're going to get going! YAH!

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