I am closing my laptop and it won't be opened for several days. Tomorrow is the last night with the fam. We are having fried chicken for dinner (which, for those of you who aren't dutch, means lunch after church), which is the tradition. Monday, Jeff, Mom, cousin David, Ian and I are driving to Chicago and the surrounding area to drop off David at his house (he spent the week with us) and then for me to fly off to see the world! If God is gracious to see it through, I will land in Poland, then Vilnius, Lithuania's capitol. We will spend three days and two nights there before we head to Klaipeda when we will start school! I don't plan to open it until I get settled in my dorm, so I'm sure there will be a good, long, interesting post at that point :)

Please please be praying for me and my family and ian! I think there will be a lot of overall sadness, if excitement, about the whole thing. Also, travel, aslo that my bags don't pop open with all their contents! I haven't weighed them yet, so we may have a moment of truth...