Hello all,

It's the evening before we leave on our trip and we are very excited!  Today was a full day of errands, allergy shots, last minute shopping and, last but not least, a pedicure.  David had to go to court in  Asheville about his ticket for driving without a CDL and the DA quickly dismissed the case when David showed him proof that he now has a CDL.  Whew!  If he had gone to jail, who would I have taken to Europe with me???

I just checked us in for the flight and printed our boarding passes.  We leave Charlotte at 2:45 p.m. and fly to Philadelphia.  We leave Philadelphia at 6:10 p.m. and arrive in Brussels, Belgium at 7:55 a.m.  It's a 7 hr., 45 min. flight which isn't too bad.  I'm sorry to say that first class is sold out so I was unable to upgrade us for the flight over.  Oh well, we have good exit row seats with a lot of leg room in front of us (and then there's the lavatory) so we should be pretty comfortable.  

We will be meeting up with six other people when we arrive in Belgium.  We all arrive within one hour of each other.  We will meet at the Java Hut and then proceed to the train station where we will take a train to Bruges, Belgium for the first part of our journey.  More about that tomorrow.

Now it's time to finish packing and go forage for food for dinner.  We've tried to empty out the cupboards and refrigerator because we will be gone for so long so it will be slim pickins'.  I'm thinking hot dogs with a frozen vegetable of some kind.  Luckily I have low carb fudgesicles for dessert! 

Will write more tomorrow.