Last Day in the USA

We just got back from eating breakfast and now we're watching College Gameday here in Washington DC. We met a ton of Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) last night. Everyone was so nice and we learned a lot. IMPORTANT! They told us that we may need to password protect this blog so if that happens the password will be the state (not the city) in which we last lived before we left. No capital letters. Got it? The state where we both attended college. Ok?

We are flying out today at 5:45PM ET, we have a two hour layover in Frankfurt and we should land in Ukraine around 1:00PM Ukraine Time which is eight hours ahead of Central Time.

Last night we went down the street to this little sushi bar and had the best sushi I have ever had...and I have had some very good sushi before. I think the name was Sushiko.

Otherwise, we glimpsed the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Congressional Building from a speeding, careening airport shuttle which is always an adventure. He did take us through Georgetown which was cool.

We need to start getting ready for checkout here in a minute so we will post again when we settle in the Ukraine. We love all you guys! Bye bye USA!

New camcorder and jitters

We got a new camcorder now thanks to Nancy. It
s waterproof and really works great. It's the final piece to the puzzle. We are officially equipped and ready to go with three days left.

By the way, I know that these posts aren't exactly eventful but if I don't start getting into the habit of posting regularly then I might forget to post when we get to the Ukraine at which time the posts will become much more interesting.

New netbook and webcam madness

We got a netbook today. It's tiny and awesome but it has Windows 7 on it. The bad thing about Windows 7 is that it doesn't have video recording at all. So, after a good hour or more of searching, I finally found a program that works. So, I should be posting some videos soon before we leave to test it out but now I am tired and ready for bed. Nighty nite.

First official post...USA

We are out of our old house and into my father-in-law's house. My car died on Tuesday right after we finished moving. It bent a rod and isn't worth fixing. Sad. I liked that car. We have Peace Corps staging in Washington DC on Sept 17 and we leave the U.S. on Sept 18. Exciting. Our plane leaves at 6:15am from Nashville which is an hour from where we are now. That means we have to be up at 3:00am in order to be punctual. Eeek. I'll be sleeping on the way to DC.