this is it!!

This is the day we've all been waiting for! I couldn't sleep this morning so I decided to get up and post a quick blog about our plans for today...which you could probably figure out consist mainly of standing and waiting, sitting and waiting, sitting and flying, and maybe (just maybe) a little catnap before we wrrive in Chile tomorrow morning. But just so you know...

We're meeting at the airport in Indianapolis at 2:00 this afternoon and our flight leaves for Atlanta at 5. Thankfully, we have a long layover in Atlanta (I say thankfully, for those of you who have never experienced this piece of airport joy, because sometimes you have to run all over the airport just to miss your connecting flight). We leave for Santiago at 10, and arrive at 7 AM, at which point we will transfer to our hotel, the City Hotel. I posted a link to the hotel website so you can see the pictures of where we'll be staying while in Santiago.

This will be my first trip to the Southern Hemisphere so I'm kind of excited about it being winter there. How cool is that??? Do they make jokes about snow in December like we make them about snow in July? Anyway, the weather forecast said it will be upper 50s to lower 60s for the highs, with the lows around 30. So packing wasn't as much of a challenge as I had thought it would be. Now watch me have brought the worst clothes possible. I'm still trying to find a way to take more stuff out of my suitcase!

Hotel City