Busy busy

I have been so busy lately.  I'm currently sitting in a hotel room about 10 minutes from the PDX, with my flight at 10 am tomorrow morning.  So now I have time to take a breath and update everyone.  Now, where to begin.

We had a going away party in Portland last week with a lot of family and friends from around the area.  It was great to get to see everyone one last time before setting off.  I'm working on collecting photos from everyone, those will be going up hopefully in the next week.

I started digitizing my media collection.  I got myself a 1.5TB external hard drive and started ripping DVDs to it. That will save a lot of space.  Isaac will appreciate this - I have all the bond movies at my fingertips all the time =)

My Mom threw mini-parties for me and my sister to celebrate our birthdays, Christmas, and every other holiday for the next year, complete with presents.  That was kind of fun.

I had to get everything packed of course.  That took up most of my time for the last few days.  I'm allowed two 50 pound bags, one standard carry-on, and one "personal item," which I'm using for my laptop bag.  Overall I ended up getting all my stuff (including my climbing gear!) in one 48 pound and one 44 pound bag.  My carry-on is about double the weight allowance though because of my PS3.  Nothing I can really do about that, so I'm hoping they don't check the weight.

I'm pretty excited to get started on this trip.  It sounds like a bunch of people from the Facebook group at my orientation will be going out Wed night, giving us a chance to finally meet in person and try out this soju we've heard so much about!

My next post will be from the other side.  Hopefully I'll be able to get some pics and vids up soon.

T minus seven hours to the airport!