don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya

24 hours to go and watching the second hand...

We opened up an exquisite bottle of wine tonight (shout out to Fielding Hills Columbia Valley 03' Cab Franc) and toasted to an 11 year old dream.

Here's the double tall non-fat of it: we're flying into Copenhagen direct from Seattle, and then a short flight from Copenhagen to London. A friend and recent Euro-consult, Monica, let us know that the Copenhagen airport is a shopping haven so we plan on taking advantage of some 3am (Seattle time) shopping during our lay-over. We spend a couple days in London, and then we're off to Dublin where the plan is to rent a car and drive directly to Galway. I'm sure this driving bit will be a separate blog entry all on its own but let's just suffice it to say now that I (Erin Rae) will be the designated back-ass-wards driver during this trip and well... we should ALL be scared. We're going to take about 5-6 days and drive through the south of Ireland and then back up to Dublin where we will hang out for a couple of days (can't miss that Literary Pub Crawl!) before heading on to Edinburgh, Scotland. I've heard Edinburgh described as "the cutest little town on earth," so I, personally, may be most looking forward to this leg of the journey. Then from Scotland, we take a train through the countryside back to York, where hopefully we'll still have time left to stop for a night and explore this "medieval" England before we're due back in London for one last night before our journey ends. Our last evening in London will be on Drake's birthday (3rd time at 30 is a always a charm) so we plan on doing something fabulous and going out with a bang and a hangover for the long ride home.

I think we've succeeded in packing light. Kimmie came over tonight to say good bye to us (what a sweet gesture - here's your shout out Kimmie, but if you're only skimming through the blog again, I hope you miss this!) and commented on how this may be the lightest she's ever seen us pack and how she's used to us camping where we bring everything AND the kitchen sink. Who would have thunk that we'd be bringing less to Europe for 2+ weeks than a 2 day camping weekend. Ha!

The top three questions on our minds:
3) Will they have good coffee in Europe;
2) Will our electronic devices crap out on us; and,
1) Will we come back? Only time will tell.

Anyway... so that's all we've got for tonight. The next update will be from across the big pond.

Ta Ta!