Plans change and that's life

Well, I went to the ENT only to find out that they're taking out my tonsils. Lucky me. The bad news of all of this is that I will be coming home a few weeks early to get them out. I will be saying goodbye to Katie in Paris and while I get surgery on June 1st she will be visiting England without me. I'm bummed,  but it could be a whole lot worse, right... I could not be going. So I will be finishing up antibiotics while traveling plus I have a three weeks supply just in case my tonsils decide to flare up again. We are hoping that they don't. 

This trip is a whole lot different from the last one. I have have a "whatever" attitude about what will happen. What could happen, I mean, I'm in a first world country and I have someone with me! A lot... but at least I'm in a first world country and I have someone with me...  All I need is my passport and credit card. How I get places and where I am sleeping is very far off in my concerns right now. This amount of time before SE Asia I slightly freaking out about what needed to happen... how I was going to get places and all that fun stuff. Katie will be picking me up from the Florence airport. What more could I need - she knows what she is doing. 

So our master plan, which because nothing is booked, is completely flexible, and may change 20 times before we even leave Italy:  I will get into Florence on Tuesday April 21. I will spend a few days wondering around Florence (or going wherever Katie tells me to) while she is in class. We will fly to Sicily for the weekend to sunbath with her friends. I will spend more time wondering around Florence while Katie stresses about finals. I'm so happy not being in school right now! We will be planning where we are staying and how we are getting places before setting out May 1st or 2nd on our adventure.  We plan to hop by plane or train to: Barcelona, Monaco/Nice, Geneva, Zurich, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Holland, and Paris. Tried yet? We will be spending 2 nights in most places before going to the next place. It will be quite the adventure and so different from my last one. I'm excited! 

Stay tuned. I will have a mini computer and I will see what kind of updating I can do while we are on the road. I'll be back May 28th. 

Katie and I last spring while I was back at WSU for a visit. We were put together freshman year in the dorms and it has been friends ever since! 

I have gone through my 4000+ pictures of SE Asia and have narrowed it down to 370ish pictures so you can see a mini version of my trip. I figure this way anyone can see them if they want and you can go at your own pace. Plus I have added comments so you can hear a little bit about each place as well. 

Take a look if you like: http://picasaweb.google.com/aewdenton

I'm off to Europe!