Snow, Snow Go Away!

Come again some other day!!

Snow! Oh my. Lots and lots of it up here at my parents. Six new inches on top of close to 18 inches already on the ground.

Yesterday it was more than 60 degrees. Today a blizzard. It must be spring in Colorado.

I love the snow, I really do. It's beautiful out there (in the daylight hours, that is).

But....

We leave for Ukraine tomorrow evening and are praying the roads will be good. We leave the house around 1 pm or sooner, drive up to Denver, get dropped off after saying quick goodbyes in the car, then we go through the whole shebang at the airport and wait, wait, wait until our flight is called.

I've already checked us in. We have great seats (I hope I'm reading the example correctly). We got Economy Plus or Economy Club or something like that - it's been so long since I bought the tickets I don't remember exactly - I'll blame it on the drugs I was on... Those seats were a bit more in price (a tiny bit!!!), but gave Mel more leg room. I'm glad now we spent that tiny bit more, because..... drum roll please!

We are seated in the seats that face each other in the first class section of the plane!! Mel is window and faces 'backwards' while I am aisle and face forward. If I am not dreaming, these are the seats that actually let you lay back kind of flat and sleep!! WoooHooo! And they are on the correct side of the plane (the left side) to possibly see the aurora during the night as we fly over Canada and the north Atlantic and south of Greenland. I hope they are out. And it will be so much better for my knees and the need to get up and walk around every hour or so, unless I'm asleep.

So, my tears over leaving are mixed with rejoicing.

We've had a tough time getting everything packed. We were asked to bring back a rather heavy item for someone and it's been a pain to get it packed safely and still meet the weight limits on the baggage. It doesn't take much to get to the 50 pound limit now. Mel's clothes and shoes are heavy - he's a big guy! My suitcase is too small to really protect the item. So, we had to buy a new bag and are ending up with more baggage than we had planned.

The good news is that we can now carry our laptop plus a briefcase (Mel) and I can carry my carryon and a purse. On the way over we could only have one item, so I put my purse in my carryon until we got through all the safety checks. Grrr. I complained about it. Now I'm glad they've changed it again.

This may be my last post until we are back in Ukraine. As things look now, we will not be back in Kherson until next Saturday, but I may be able to get on the internet via someone else's computer in Kiev.

Wow. The last 4 months have gone by so very fast. So much has happened. It's overwhelming. Whew!