Leaving on a jet plane....but I DO know when I'll be back again...

...Oh Babe, I hate to (tell you this but umm, I'm not exactly busted up that I have to ) go...

My friends, amigos, amis, shik'is....

I fly tomorrow to Toronto, and then Saturday night, my Mom and I will cross The Pond to catch a ride on this...The Equinox.

And this is our itinerary:

Date	Port/City	Activity	Arrival	Departure
Day 1	Barcelona, Spain			5:00 PM
Day 2	At Sea
Day 3	Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy	Docked	7:00 AM	7:00 PM
Day 4	Naples, Italy	Docked	7:00 AM	6:30 PM
Day 5	At Sea
Day 6	Santorini, Greece	Tendered	9:00 AM	7:00 PM
Day 7	Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey	Docked	7:00 AM	6:00 PM
Day 8	Mykonos, Greece	Tendered	7:00 AM	6:00 PM
Day 9	Athens (Piraeus), Greece	Docked	6:00 AM	6:00 PM
Day 10	At Sea
Day 11	Valletta, Malta	Docked	7:00 AM	5:00 PM
Day 12	At Sea

We return to Barcelona on Day 13 and fly back to Toronto that afternoon. 

I haven't had 2 weeks alone with my mom since, ohhhhhhh, 1989. I have never been to Europe. I've spent the last 4 decades wishing I could see inside the Roman Colosseum. And I've wanted to see Santorini since 1980-something, when my sister went to Greece with friends.And Ephesus??? Ahhhh!!

I'll check in to say hello today, and I'll be updating on Facebook until Saturday afternoon. 

But DO come back in late June, because unless I'm in jail in Europe...there's going to be a few pictures and some awesome stories.

Adios!!

I can't make this white box disappear....and it won't centre, either....

Vlog? Did you say VLOG????

Hey minions, hoardes and my Mom.

Grab a warm beverage and let's visit.

3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!

3 weeks and counting!!
And before anyone thinks "Ooooohhh, brag much?"
The only travelling I do is mission trips to Bolivia. And hockey weekends where I sleep in a room with an open hockey bag. Cough gag cough. 

The mission trips to the Andes are exhausting and all about giving until I am cross eyed and wasted. Oh, and sick. Spent. Sun burnt and weary in my heart. But I love it!! To walk the footsteps of heaven? Glorious.To share Jesus with the Quechua? A joy like none other.



But Mom and I have talked about this trips for years. It's our Epic Adventure. She let me choose where we'd go. But not the South Pacific, that's a bit too far. 
So, the Mediterranean???  How awesome is that???

So, in three weeks, my mom and I will be getting ready to go here:

Yup. Rome. The Eternal City. The Colosseum. In which I will take probably 400 pictures and make Gwen Gage a photo album for her book.

The Colosseum is the Number One place on my bucket list. To stand where the martyr's stood?? Where so much history was made? Holy smokes!!

And here:

Santorini, Greece. The second item on the bucket list. Simply for the pure beauty of it.

We're also going to Naples, Athens, Ephesus, Corinth, and we sail out of Barcelona.

Which is in Spain.

So? Enough about me??

Where do you want to go?