10/18/2006

AUSTRALIA: HERE WE COME!!!!! It's 6 days before we leave and all plans are finalized: lists made, documents secured, presents gotten, clothes bought and ready to be packed. We're going on a Friendship Force exchange. We'll be staying in people's homes - some we know, some we've corresponded with. They've told us a little about themselves but we'd like to take some pictures of our home, area and family. "Brag" books are the way to go and they are great but this one is giving me fits due to digital cameras and waiting until the last minute to do this. I'm having trouble making prints of the things I want in the book so I guess I'll just make a photo CD and we'll look at it on our laptop. Plus, I know when it comes to packing, everything I want to take isn't going to fit. The flight will be a long one with both my sister, Lori and mother in law, Irena having surgery while we're in the air. Hope all goes well with them. And Ben is having an MRI on his knee while Luke sees the doctor about his shoulder. It'll all have to wait until we get there.