Goodbye to Poznan

Well, I'm in Warsaw...finally! Still pretty hard to believe. In fact, I'm wondering when I will actually begin believing it all. When I board the plane? When we fly into St. Louis? When I see my family? A few months after that??

It's been a pretty tough day. I'm exhausted. Everything went perfectly though...got our document translations (amazing how much it costs to have something translated!), got things at the house wrapped up and shipped off for storage, finished out everything with our landlord, and finally took the wonderful Berlin-Warsaw express train here to join my family.

Vicki touched base with Ewa from the U.S. Embassy this morning. We're so thankful that she said that we can have our visa interviews whenever we get the passports. So, if we get them Friday before 10am, we'll head over to the "Beautiful Street" (yeah, it's really called that) and try to get these kids ready to become Americans. If we get them Monday then we'll take care of it then. Either way, everything's working out perfectly. We continue to pray that that doesn't change!

Just wanted to write a quick note to let everyone know what's going on, where we all are, and how things are looking. So bizarre to see our empty apartment today...to say goodbye to a great friend...to take the train out of the city I've (we've) invested so much of ourselves in over the last 3 years 8 months. Hard stuff...really hard stuff. But thankfully there is a prize at the end of this long marathon...and it (or rather, they) will be waiting for us when we get off the plane back home.