T minus 1 day to Australia.....

Tomorrow we start the next leg of the adventure: Destination Australia. We are outrageously excited, looking forward to visiting the land of kangaroos and the Great Barrier Reef!

This trip has many more variables that, as we sit on this side of it, cause us to pray with anticipation:

• Will we all get on the same planes as Sara and the kids fly standby from LA to Sydney to Perth (and, mid-trip, from Perth to Ayers Rock to Cairns, and on the return from Cairns to Sydney to LAX to home)? That's a lot of non-revving, with many opportunities for mommy and kids to be stranded while daddy flies on his paid ticket since this is a work trip. All things considered, it's still a more than reasonable sacrifice for the privilege of being able to use Sara's flight benefits.
• How will the kids (particularly Christa) handle the nearly 24 hours of flying time?
• How about dealing with the 13 hour time zone difference?
• Will the lodging selections work well for the family? Everything looks dandy online and on brochures, but you never know until you see it.... We're particularly wondering about the place in Perth....
• Will Sara get a decent bid award (schedule) for October, and be able to drop any trips so the vacation isn't cut short?

When we're on the other side of this adventure we'll know the answer to all those questions and most likely realize that those things we were most concerned about weren't that big of a deal (or turned out to be a big part of the memory).

I can't wait to see what God has before us, starting in under 24 hours....