Happy Winter Solstice

It's the official first day of winter and the shortest day of the year. I'm getting ready for my trip to England to visit Glenn and meet his family. Of course there's plenty of drama all around and even though I've planned this trip since JUNE I'm still not ready. So the next few days will be filled with packing and cleaning, unpacking and repacking, stressing and overthinking, and on Thursday night my brother will leave me at the airport. After a cocktail or two I'll get on that plane and find out if the fairytale has a happy ending or goes horribly wrong.

Here's the technical stuff:

Flight 102 departing DTW on 12/25 at 6:15 P.M., arriving at LHR (Heathrow) at 7:00 A.M. on 12/26. Since there are no trains on Boxing Day I'm spending the night in London at a hostel. I'll have a special entry all about that I'm sure. My train gets into Leeds at 12:35 on 12/27 and I'll call/text/e-mail all of you so you know that Glenn did in fact pick me up.

I had such hopes of everything being in place by today so I could chill for the rest of the week. Maybe it will all come together tomorrow night. West Coast Crew expect some calls.

Thanks to all of you for listening to this saga. Sorry I can't do anything the easy way but what fun would that be?

Happy Solstice, Happy Chanukkah and Happy Christmas.

PS The slideshow on the blog is just a default. I'll add cool pictures later.