Today's Wednesday.  Our flight to Dubai leaves Monday at 5 P.M.  We'll have two layovers: a short one in Memphis and then a 3 hour one in Amsterdam, which Griffin calls Hamsterdam.  It will take us 20 hours total travel time (including layovers) to reach our destination. Fortunately, we'll be flying overnight, so hopefully we'll all be able to sleep.  We'll arrive close to midnight the next day, and then Woody will begin work the next day.

We've gotten so much done.  We moved out of the house, found a renter, found homes for our two cats and fish, sold our car (and will sell the truck today or tomorrow), and have appropriated all of the necessary documents we need to get our visas.  I'm amazed that I was able to list all of that in just one sentence.  It felt like it took more work than that.  Moving out of the country in two months' notice is one of the most intense things I've ever done.

We have a little time to breathe now that we're staying with family and the hard work is done.  The only thing we have left to do is sell the truck and get a rental car.  Tomorrow is Griffin's birthday!  We're having a little party at Chuck E Cheese with Griffin's cousin, Lanie.   I can't believe he'll be four.  I don't know many world-traveling four-year-olds.  I know that Griffin will do great.

Speaking of, it's time to fix his breakfast.  Signing off for now.