Day 0.5?

TODAY IS THE DAY!! The day we start our adventure. True, we haven't left the US yet, but still, the adventure starts. We plan on leaving this am for our drive to DC. Our plane isn't scheduled to leave until 10pm tonight, so I am both anxious and excited. I think the anxiety will turn to pure excitement once we lift off into the air.

I checked the weather again this morning and it is supposed to be chance of rain in the US today, and it is actually supposed to be clear weather in Scotland when we get there tomorrow. HOORAY!!

Now queue the frantic last minute packing changes, the sad goodbyes with my family, the anticipation during the drive, the panic moments when I think of something I forgot, then remember that I did in fact bring it, etc...

One of my boys was going to give me one of his small stuffed animals to take and put in our pictures, but he keeps flopping back and forth on whether or not he can really let it go with me....LOL...

I won't be able to post again until next afternoon, so stay tuned for pics from day 0.5 and day 1...

I would like to post a travelling poem as a send off. It is by Robert Lewis Stevenson and called A Song of the Road

A Song of the Road

The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But "Over the hills and far away?"

When'er I buckle on my pack And foot it gaily in the track, O pleasant gauger, long since dead, I hear you fluting on ahead.

You go with me the self-same way - The self-same air for me you play; For I do think and so do you It is the tune to travel to.

For who would gravely set his face To go to this or t'other place? There's nothing under Heav'n so blue That's fairly worth the travelling to.

On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal therein; But wheresoe'er the highways tend, Be sure there's nothing at the end.

Then follow you, wherever hie The travelling mountains of the sky. Or let the streams in civil mode Direct your choice upon a road;

For one and all, or high or low, Will lead you where you wish to go; And one and all go night and day Over the hills and far away!

I CAN'T WAIT!!