we are leaving today!!! no visas yet, but we are going to Aix for 2 days and dropping our bags off, then leaving for staff conference near Amsterdam. I don't know what our internet situation will be for the next few months, but I'll post as often as I can. I believe we have a wireless connection at SC, so I can post from there. We are all felling a little shell shocked about leaving- a type of buyer's remorse I guess, but at the same time we are very excited to get under way! Yee Haw. More later...