Getting Ready to Go

It's T minus 4 days until we leave. Starvation Army comes today to pick up some stuff, and then the movers are here tomorrow to load everything that goes south. After that, we'll be sleeping on our flattened futon mattress on the floor until Saturday, when we load up Vivi and Bunny and head to the airport. (I actually feel bad for whoever sits in front of us. I can hear it now: "You have a cat and a baby? Uh, can I move? To the wing?")

Since we found out they don't have Similac Sensitive in Chile, I bought $500 worth of formula to take with us. Stuartt think's I'm insane, but the last thing I want is a baby in a foreign country with an upset stomach.

We also found out that we have to have a USDA Veterinarian certificate for Bunny, although no one in any position of authority knows this (including the USDA). We learned from a woman who moved to Chile several years ago that they will try to deport any animals without one. So tomorrow morning I'm driving to the USDA office to convince them to stamp a form they don't think I need. But I am NOT putting my cat on a boat to sail to god know's where. So we're getting the form.

Things I will miss about the good ol' US: drive-throughs, huge drinks with lots of ice, commercialized holidays (especially Halloween), Target, college football (go Jayhawks!), college basketball (course, it will be another 20 years until another Hawks championship), baseball playoffs (go Angels and Dodgers!) Gray's Anatomy (have to watch it online;)

But my Spanish will get a lot better, and it will be an enriching culture experience (even more than watching sports and going to Target).

Mas Tarde,