Tomorrow is the Day!

We leave at 8 tomorrow morning. Our backpacks are stuffed, sitting on our bed waiting for departure. A few last minute things to tuck in, a kitchen to clean, and we'll be ready. We get to Houston tomorrow night and leave for Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning.

We are leaving behind an empty dorm (at times we wondered if it would really be empty before we left), a finished Masters degree (Jon is officially, in the words of Mike Moffitt, "Done done"), a room full of recently adopted plants (don't forget to water them Lisa), and our wedding rings (my finger feels naked). We are heading towards....probably more than we can realize at this point.

We'll write more from the land of humidity.

Jules and Jon

Less than two weeks until departure

Welcome to our Honduras Blog. We hope to post some updates about our trip along the way. Chances are that we won't be able to add much when we are in the village, but we should have a chance to post when we get to Tegucilgalpa afterwards and when we are traveling at the end of May.

We leave in two weeks from yesterday for our month in Honduras. Our attentions are divided between finishing things here and preparing to go. In between regular work stuff and celebrating the end of Jon's comprehensive paper, we have started learning Spanish (we've learned enough to introduce ourselves--we have two weeks to learn the rest!) and make packing lists. Tonight we get to splurge on a Honduras Travel book and maybe some shorts from Sally Ann.

As of Sunday, Jon has raised all of the money he needs for the trip! Some of the money came from very surprising places, reminding us again that God's ways are not our ways.

Until later,
Jon and Julianne