One Week to Departure

One and a half weeks ago I moved out of my apartment in Wayne and back home to my parents' house. Since then I've made a couple trips to Waynesboro, celebrated Christmas with the family, and gone to Alexandria to ring in the New Year with my good friends Dani and Alyssa. My parents,  grandparents, and sister have been faithfully helping to prepare me for my trip to Ukraine. There was a definite theme to my Christmas gifts this year (money belt, travel pillow, thick sweaters, etc.). I'm getting pretty excited at this point. I haven't been very apprehensive about the trip yet, but saying goodbye to two of my best friends today made it feel a little more real.

A Christmas tradition in the Walker house

Thanks, Mom & Dad

Dani and I in National Harbor on the first day of 2013

The next big task is deciding how many articles of clothing I can sacrifice to make space for more books...