Hi Everyone --

We've spent the week trying to get organized. It seemed to all come together this weekend when Doug was home. We have sorted things into Luggage, Air Shipment, and Surface Shipment. We've been able to give a lot of things to the children's mission, throw away a few things, and give some large items away to members of the church. We've also been able to clean the dirt from a lot of things. The packers come on Tuesday!

I have tried to get all our last minute things done last week so they wouldn't have to be done this week. Hannah and I made our "last" trip to Clover Center and we bought some of everything. Hannah just wanted to wander through all the stores to say, "goodbye."

We went to 2 new restaurants this week -- a continental one on the top of the IBM building, and a new Chinese restaurant. The continental one was good and reasonably priced, but the wind was blowing on the rooftop and the noise from the street was deafening, even seven floors up. The Chinese one was OK, but we know a place that's better, but with less atmosphere.

We have our reservations for temporary housing in Pune. We'll be staying at the Oakwood Premiere Tuesday through Friday. Feroz will take us to Mumbai on Friday afternoon to catch our 1:50 a.m. flight. They have discontinued the direct flight from Mumbai to Atlanta, so we will be traveling Mumbai to Amsterdam to Minneapolis to Waterloo. We get in to Waterloo on Saturday afternoon. We don't have a reservation for temporary housing in Waterloo yet. Is it time to worry yet???

We will be shutting down our computer on Monday night and packing it -- so the last you will be able to talk with us by Skype is Monday morning (11/23). Doug will be able to keep up with email from work if you need to contact us.

We are excited to wind up our time here in India. It has been a BIG learning experience that we wouldn't trade.

See you soon!
Love, Lucinda