On our merry way!

Despite troubles with our shuttle (supposed to arrive at 5:45 and only three angry phone calls got us a shuttle by 6:20...) WE ARE NOW INSIDE SECURITY AND AT OUR GATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

-RA

After several bouts of the jitters today, we are finally feeling excited. All the stomache monkies (and head monkies and intestine monkies) are gone. All that's left is the excited 'jimmy leg.' We're the only ones here at the gate and we don't board for another 2 hours so we have a bit of a wait. We're drinking our Odwalla smoothies and typing away.....

-Mike

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
-RA

Thank god for Tylenol PM! Once on the plane, we plan to look around excitedly until the novelty wears off, then to watch a movie or two until that novelty wears thin and THEN blissfully sleep until we land 14hrs later in sunny Sydney! We have a window seat but unfortunately all we'll be able to see is very dark ocean down below.

~Mike

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! The time today lasted both forever and not at all. We ran our last errands this morning and called our grandparents, then Laura came with me and Mike to play on the swings at the nearby park. Mike spent a good deal of time cleaning off our hiking boots from yesterday--we can't take any mud into Australia for fear we're carrying some weird spore or creature that will wipe out the entire vegetation of the continent. I'm not sure how much of that I buy into, but Mike did a beatiful job with my boots. They haven't been this clean since I bought them!
All nerves are gone now, it's just pure excitement.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
~RA