Whirlwind Weekend

This weekend is packed!!  Tonight Nick and I are going to see "Up".  It looks fantastic and we have been waiting months for it to come out.  Then we are stoppinga the rec center to swim some laps.  We haven't been swimming since we moved so I am really looking forward to it.  I liked when we lived down the road fromt the rec center; we played racquetball quite a bit and swam often.  After swimming, we are going for a bite to eat.  Who knows where, but we will definitely be enjoying our time together.

Then tomorrow, Nick's family and we are going to the "Got to be NC" festival.  It is an awesome festival that promotes North Carolina products, farms, and bbq-ers.  There are tons of exhibits, free food, a bbq cookkoff (and tasting), and a mini carnival.  We went last year and had a great time.  I am really excited about it this year!!

Then Sunday, our small group will be meeting for the last time until fall.  It will be nice to see everyone, but it is sad knowing it is the last one.  By the time we start meeting again, Nick and I will be leaving in a few weeks plus we will be out of town visiting friends and family.  I must say when we joined this group last February, I really did not like it.  Everyone was so different from ourlast group, and the meting had a much more serious feel.  However, I really have grown to enjoy meeting with them, and we have met some really cool people.  Now I still miss meeting with our old group, but I look forward to seeing everyone in the new group also.

Well today is exactly four months until we fly out with Peace Corps.  On Sept. 29, 2009 Nick and I will be in Philadelphia meeting the folks we will be training with for the next three months.  We'll get anymore vaccinations, have final checks on passports/visas, learn a bit about where we are going/staying in Turkmenistan, and then we'll leave out for 27 months.  The closer it gets the more I realize everything we are leaving behind.  I mean some things are good to leave behind--boring jobs, consummerism, television addiction.  But everyone we know is here, all my cooking stuff is here, safety in knowing everything is going to be fine is here.  I mean we're crazy doing this.  Sometimes I want to back out and just move to Colorado but I know if we don't do this, we are just going to keep getting stuck in a rut with our jobs.  I really want to be excited about this trip (and I am most times), but it is really scary at the same time--at least I will have Nick beside me.