Booked, Packed and Ready to Go!

OK almost packed, but completely booked. We leave on Thanksgiving Day and arrive Tirana at Noon on Friday. We are staying with bloggy friends on Friday night and then going up to Shkoder on Saturday. We would love to go on Friday, but after that many hours on the plane and the need to adjust as well as shower, we decided to wait a day and meet our daughter with clear heads and clean bodies! We also fear that are luggage will not make it until Saturday because of a 35 minute layover in Munich. Yup you read that correctly 35 minutes. The airlines say it can be done but I don’t know, last time we had a 50 minute layover and we barely made it forget about the bags. So sometime late Thursday night early Friday morning we will be running though an airport, because I do not want to wait one extra day to meet our Daughter!

It looks like we have an apartment to rent for a very good deal while we are in Shkoder, which is making me very happy. This means that we will have a kitchen and if I am still up there for Christmas a living room in which to celebrate the Holiday. But we have to wait to see about that we may be done with all the paperwork in Shkoder sooner which means we may be down in Tirana by Christmas. Just have to play it by ear.

The last few days have been spent running around getting paperwork done, clothes bought for Marjada, (we sort of know her sizes) Christmas shopping and wrapping finished, packing, food cooked and frozen for Ben and an electronic dog door put in for Lucky! And Bob is working like a crazy person as they finish up one job and prepare to start another. Things have been crazy. You would think that 2 years and 9 months we could have had some things ready, but instead it’s as though it’s been 2 weeks!

Well next time you hear from me I’ll be in Albania!