Books and More

It was my birthday last Saturday and fortunately, I received several gift certificates from Amazon.com. So, today I ordered a bunch of books that I want to take with on our trip. I think books are going to end up being the heaviest component of our luggage. The pile of "Books to Bring" grows larger every minute. The post office does have a special rate for books but they take 4-6 weeks to arrive so we'll have to be very picky about which books to take on the plane.

Today we also received an email from a fellow soon-to-be CY student who found our blog and wrote, providing a plethora of fantastic information and contacts that will help us in the next two weeks (EEK!) of preparation four our departure.

We think that Jen is going to buy a laptop here before we go instead of risking shipping her desktop. We both need a computer to do our work online and we do already have one laptop (Jen's) so Jen gets a new one and I get the hand-me-down. :)

Still no visa, but then again, FedEx could not have brought it today because the consulate was closed on Friday for Shavuot. I'll watch for the truck tomorrow morning...