Vacation!
We’re fixing to leave for the airport in about two hours, but I got all my packing done yesterday, so right now I’m mostly just taking care of a few piddly little things: getting my hair cut, writing up a list of “things to know about Sam” for my dad and brother, who’ll be running a Sammy-camp while I’m gone.
My mom and I are jetting off to the Netherlands for a couple weeks to visit family and friends (hers—she’s Dutch, born and raised). Usually we go as a family every other summer, but we haven’t been since 2002. This time around my dad’s recovering from shoulder surgery and my brother’s being lame, so it’ll just be us girls.
In between seeing all of our gajillion family members and celebrating like five birthdays, we’re planning to spend a week or so in Germany sometime. I’ve never been, so that should be nifty. We won’t be there until after the World Cup finishes, which is nice.
Of course, we have to fly across the ocean to get there, and…eek. I am *not* a good flyer. Yes, I realize that the plane is perfectly capable of making it all the way to Europe, and that hijackers are ridiculously unlikely to single out my flight for their mischief, but I’m still anxious. Trying to keep myself busy so I don’t have time to dwell on it. I slept in until 11:30 this morning, which is good for cutting down on thinking time, but terrible for the trip, since it pretty much guarantees I won’t be able to sleep on the plane and will be horribly jet-lagged the first day or two.
I’m bringing several pounds of electronics along—camcorder, still camera, and laptop—to record the trip and generally stay in touch. I wouldn’t have brought the laptop along, as heavy as it is, except that I want to edit my video footage as I go along so I don’t have to do it all when I get home. If I get good videos, I’ll be putting them up on YouTube and embedding them here, so watch this space.
Ok, I should go now. It’s a Natalie truism that I always forget my hairbrush when I’m packing for trips, and I’ve gone and done it again, so I have to run to the store. Next update from Holland!