T-Minus 10 days til departure!

I leave for my travels in just 10 days! For those of you who wish to follow my non-Zambia life and portion of the travels, check out my personal blog. But basically, I'm going to fly from Dallas to London, where I'll be staying with a friend and dropping off some of my stuff to move to London. 2 nights there, then it's on to Barcelona, where I'm meeting a friend from work for a couple days. Then my friend from London is joining us, and a friend of my friend's from B-school, and we're all headed to Pamplona to experience the Running of the Bulls! (Experience = watch, not join in, just to clarify) :) 4 crazy days there, then back to London to catch my flight to....

ZAMBIA! I am getting so excited. The funds are raised, the prayers are near constant, and I am just so excited for the awesome experience. I can't say thank you enough to all of you who have made this a reality. The updates we're getting from the Camp leaders are that the weeks are going well - they're biggest concern is that people aren't bringing enough jelly for their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that we eat every day for lunch!

Tomorrow is my last day at work. I'm taking next week off and will be running all my errands, going to doctor appointments, etc. to prepare for Zambia, my other travels, and of course, my move to London! On Monday I've got my appointment to get my Malaria meds and get the sign off for my travels, so please pray that goes well!

This Sunday night, all of the peeps from Watermark Church that are going to Zambia in the coming weeks are having a prayer night. I'm hoping to make some new friends that will be going to Vic Falls with me and staying during my 2nd week (most of my friends are going a week earlier, and therefore leaving a week before me) I'm sure everyone will be wonderful, but I'm a tid bit anxious (who will I be sharing a room with???) Anyway, i'm really happy for this get together, because I don't feel like I necessarily have a core group of prayer partners in my daily life, as I enter this journey. If any of you reading this would be up to the task, please let me know!

And I guess I'll leave it at that for now. I'll update again as the prep week begins!

Love and blessings to all of you!
Hilary