Nervicited

Casey say's she is nervous AND excited about the trip (Mark say's the same). So nervicited is the new word.

We have been dreaming, planning, strategizing, doing, and packing for 6 months. It's go time. Today is the day! Our flight leaves at 9 pm. Whew!

I am listening to the rain come down HARD outside my door right now. I figure, the weather in Trier couldn't be much worse than this right no? Hmmm...we shall see.
Casey said goodbye to her classmates. She got some hugs and some puzzled looks as we explained why she will be gone from school for the next 3 months.

We have about an 11 hour flight to Munich, a 2 hour layover, then a short flight to Luxumbourg, then we shall crash. Zzzzzzzzzz...

We re keeping our fingers crossed Maya does well on the flight. I mean, we did fly home with her from Ethiopia and she did do well. We were the ones that were totally crabby and crawling out of our skin to jump off of the plane.

We got to meet the awesome German family that will be staying at our house, and we at their house. Attached is the picture of the girls together. I think that they would have been just as happy to have us adults go together for 3 months so they could hang out. Go figure. Their easy going personalities and go with the flow embrace of all of this has put us at ease and made us even more excited about our adventure.

Okay, so next time I write here it will be all in German. Ha! Yeah right. The language part will be a comedic event in itself.
But I will say...Auf Wiedersehen (gosh I hope I spelled that right)!