Departure

My last post was a bit premature, as the bad weather in the midwest has continued this week. Lots of snow in both Des Moines and Chicago has caused us both a little more stress than we would have liked this week. Nevertheless, today is the day we head out, and the snow seems to be calming down.

I'm writing this from the Des Moines "International" Airport, where we're getting ready to head to Chicago, then on to London overnight.

We left our cat Belle behind. She seemed more interested in her mid-morning nap than long goodbyes.

She will have various visitors while we're gone, and as long as they feed her, they will become fast friends.

As for us, we're hoping things go off smoothly for the rest of today and we'll check back in from London.

If anything noteworthy happens between here and there, I'll update this post.

**********************************************

Update: Made it to Chicago; going to London. I used the earplanes ear plugs Martha got me, and my inner ear didn't explode. We can't say for certain whether they actually worked or not (thanks a lot, science), but we can say that they didn't not work.

Stephanie says "hi."

See you in London.