9 days.  I can’t believe I leave in 9 days.  It is finally here, and I am thrilled.  Last night I did another “test-pack” and found that my original plan was not going to work.  My original plan being that I bring one big suitcase and one little one.  I will now be bringing two big suitcases, one of them being over the 50lb weight limit that I get on the flight.  In fact, I was fitfully dreaming all night that I was at the airport, trying to check in my bags and find out if I would have to pay a fee.  At first there was no line, and a nice gentleman at the counter whom I thought would let me slide without the excess weight fee.  But I kept getting distracted by people I knew, and every time I turned back, the line had grown exponentially.  It had wrapped around the airport (which looked like the inside of a giant arena).