Porto!!!

Last night I was up until 1 AM packing. Now if you know me, I'm usually in bed by 10 kind of girl. I like me my 8+ hours of sleep each night. However, this weekend, I basically just slept tons, which meant by Sunday evening I was very well rested (maybe, you could say a bit too well rested), especially if you consider I took Friday off from work. So after a nice 2 hour conversation Sunday night with my traveling partner figuring out more details, I just went crazy and packed everything. We're trying to travel without checking bags. We have some crazy transfers (ie. short) and the airports are cracking down on bag dimensions. And I just wasn't sure. The thing that's killing me is the heals for the wedding. But I don't think I can let them go. I have to have them to make the dress dressy. So I made final decisions, realized it's a country where, worse come to worse, I can always buy things. Good news, everything fits, with room to spare. Don't quite have everything packed, but anything that isn't is on a list. I think I'm good to go. With 10 days to spare. Can you tell I'm excited to skip town?



We nailed down where we're going to travel. Basically, since it's a short trip, we're splitting our time between Madrid and Porto which is a short flight to Portugal, and yet in a different time zone, so exciting. I've been trying to learn spanish, but that's gone by the wayside.

And forget Portuguese. I'll just bring language books and learn on the spot when needed.

I have tons more I want to share, I'm just giddy with excitement, but really want to leave work right now. I'm finding it's more and more draining and really not healthy. Case in point this weekend. I spent three days resting up and rejuvinating from being drained at work. Fully rested this morning I found an hour into our staff meeting I was tired again. Originally I thought it was my iron levels, but it seems like it's environmental. Things need to change, but I'm working on that (she said cryptically).

The good news is that I had thought if it was iron it would effect my trip, but if it's situational, I'll be good to go. And from the conversations, I'm all Pollyanna. It's going to be wonderful!