Down to the wire...

10...9...8... and no passports returned yet. With 10 days to go before we fly, we are awaiting word from the embassy that our passports have been processed. Please pray with us that the paperwork comes through on time (before next Friday at the latest). Otherwise we will have to pay to change our tickets.

In other news, we are busy packing, weighing, repacking, re-weighing, tossing a few things here, adding a few last minutes things there, and generally putting on a mild frantic. There have been a few personal triumphs - like parting with more than 2/3 of my assorted computer relics (840 MB hard drive from 1995 anyone?).

Also we have finished our last stateside newsletter - coming to your non-virtual mailbox in the near future. You can sneak a peek at it here.