Nina and I are in Salt Lake City at the Hilton Hotel in downtown. We drove down this afternoon and met Ty, Heather, Daryl, and Jaelene for dinner. Jaelene flew up from Phoenix yesterday as a surprise for Heather’s birthday. The accompanying picture is looking south from our hotel room window. We’re on the 16th floor of the hotel and the view is pretty nice. I’d like a northerly view (as that’s the direction of the temple) but this will do. Our flight leaves tomorrow just before 10 a.m. and we’ll change planes in New York City before continuing on to Brussels. We’ll arrive in Brussels about 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning Pocatello time.

Taking enough stuff without taking too much is a balance we haven’t yet achieved. We started out planning to take one big suitcase apiece. That didn’t work. We now both have one big suitcase and one small suitcase. Anything we buy will have to be shipped back home as there’s no room in the suitcases!! I’m really looking forward to this trip and will hopefully have reasonably good internet connection during the trip. If so, that’ll allow me to make regular posts to the weblog as we travel along. I might even be able to put together some pictures from time to time. So, Bon Voyage! We’re on our way!