(Brian) We’re about two and a half hours into our drive down to Toronto and it’s becoming more and more obvious. I have 0 patience. We’re going to be on a plane for 22 hours starting tomorrow and that’s just in the air. You can easily add another 10 hours of sitting around on the plane on the ground as well as in airports. It’s basically going to be about 50 hours of travel. We left at 9 this morning and get there on Thursday at 4PM (EST), THEN we drive an hour and a half south to Wollongong. Oh well! At least we’re making forward progress. Tunes is already delirious, singing ridiculous songs that she doesn’t even know the words to.
Not sure if it’s even hit us yet. We’ve said bye to friends and most of our family and last night said bye to Lucas (that was one of the toughest for sure). We’re packed and on our way, but I’m not sure if we’ve fully grasped the enormity of what we’ve taken on. I keep trying to think back as far as I can, to try and imagine what a year feels like in my memory. DAMN. It’s long. Some things that happened like 8 months ago feel like forever. But at the same time I’m sure the time will fly.
(Julia) Luckily for me I have much more patience than Brian, but this journey will still be very LONG. It really is crazy to think about where we’re going and how far away we’ll be from everyone and everything we know. I’m very excited, but at the same time a little apprehensive of the unknown. Everything will be fine though – we’ll have each other and we’ll be meeting lots of people who are in the same situation.
Right now I’m just happy that I have all my packing out of the way. We spent a lot of time rearranging/removing/weighing our suitcases so that we’d be under the luggage weight allowance. I probably didn’t need a lot of the stuff that I packed after all... oh well!
As for saying goodbye to people, well that was a little tough. And tomorrow both of our parents will be seeing us off at the airport – which I’m sure my mom will need Kleenex for! We’ll be back before we all know it though.
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