Saturday, February 19, 2005

Eight Days Away

We leave in 8 days and are doing final preparation for our trip. We went to Half Price Books today and I bought a couple of crossword puzzle books. I'm hoping they last! I am going to raid some friends' 'libraries' this week for reading material. And we have to give a special shout-out to Kevin and Emily for letting us raid their DVD collection and, most especially, for the loan of their ipod during our trip. Jim was grinning from ear to ear when he got it and has been busy loading it up.

We also found out that the wife of Jim's college roommate has family in Taraz. She (Natalia) is from Russia and lived just south of Kazakhstan for a time while growing up. We are hoping to meet her relatives while we are in Taraz.

Sam was sick last night. We're hoping we don't catch what he had. It would make for a very unpleasant plane ride!

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