Leaving on an Airplane.

Bags are packed, passports ready, batteries charge; and we're ready for Australia.

Time is such an interesting concept. Whether it's going by slowly or fast, living day by day or from one year to the next. It's intriguing how quickly time actually passes when in the moment it feels like it's just crawling by.

It saddens me that time has passed so quickly leading up to our leave today. There were many people I had wanted to see and I thought I had plenty of time to make plans, yet here I am wishing I had planned much farther in advance to see them. It also saddens me that my time in Australia is going to pass too quickly as well, that I won't be able to complete my list of adventures before having to return home.

I am excited, nervous, and a little scared about this trip. 

I am excited to finally go away and be with my husband on our own. The fact that we will only have each other to depend on and I won't be able to call home to daddy to fix something. I will have to rely on my husband and we will have to work through a multitude of situations while we are away.

I am nervous to go somewhere so new, and so far from my home. I have never left this continent. And now all of a sudden I'm actually flying over an ocean and traveling through time as I do it. (We leave on a Wednesday evening and will arrive at 5am on Friday.)

I am scared because I've never been so far from home, for such a long period of time. Yes, three months will fly by, heck 2014 is more than half way over, but I'm scared that if I become homesick I won't be able to enjoy the beautiful people and places that I will no doubt, fall in love with.

I would like you all to follow this blog, and join Anthony and I on our first International trip. Please send us encouraging words, thoughts, or prayers. See the sights that we will be seeing, and come and enjoy the people that we will be meeting. 

This is not a good-bye, only a see-ya-later. 

:)

xo, darcilove