Yesterday was a very eventful day. I spent most of the morning and afternoon at a coffee shop looking up the most updated of flight prices and schedules, while Bryan came and went between errands and long phone calls to end services at the house. Once Bryan was caught up, we contemplated over the options and settled on a flight out of Kansas City on Wednesday, March 6th to Seattle, and a flight from Seattle to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with a layover in Taiwan. What’s really nice is that we’ll have about 5 hours or so in Seattle, so we think we can catch some dinner with Bryan’s cousin and maybe some friends.
We also purchased travel insurance at the same time. We chose the more expensive package so SCUBA, snorkeling, and rock climbing would be covered. If we choose to get really crazy, like bungee or sky diving (not likely, I can see Bryan hugging the ground now), that will be covered too. Our Visas for Vietnam are reserved and will be waiting for us at the airport.
While still experiencing the euphoric high (Sybil, NOW I’m really excited), we headed in to sign the closing papers on our house. Everything went smoothly and we are happily homeless!

After some celebratory drinks with our realtor, the two of us headed to a very nice dinner at Linger thanks to a gift card from some of Bryan’s friends at work.

Picnic with Eliza! Thanks for all your help with packing, Eliza!

Our bags are packed! Thanks for helping with this, Eliza! We will probably still eliminate some items from this photo because it turned out to be more than we would like to bring. Here is a summarized list of what we are bringing: three pairs of shoes each (sandals, hiking, running), a few changes of clothes, rain coats, minimal toiletries, minimal first aid and medicines, SE Asia travel guide, South America travel guide, a couple books, a DSLR, a small camera, and a small tablet computer.