March 28 no longer sounds so far off . . .

I received a letter yesterday suspiciously inscribed with "Jury Coordinator" in the left corner. Wouldn't you know it? I get called to jury duty while I'm not only out of the state (something I've been a lot in the past couple years), but also out of the country. I've always thought it would be cool to serve on a jury and see our judicial process in action, but this time I'll have to pass. As of today, I'm leaving for Europe in exactly two weeks! I'm slowly checking things off of my "get done before leaving" list, but there's still lots of planning and preparing to do.

By the way, Katie started a travel blog so that all of you can follow along on our European adventures. I'm hoping to post on that fairly regularly with photos and stories once we hit the road, but of course that will depend on Internet availability.