Leavin' on a Jet Plane

And we're off, almost! We fly out tonight at 7:40; the flight will be about nine hours -- a prospect that's far less icky than it would have been yesterday because we were able to get slightly better seats last night.

Tangent: Over the weekend, we called to see if we might be able to upgrade using miles. Nope, but the funny part came when Mason asked, just on a whim, how much it would cost to pay for an upgrade. The answer: nine thousand dollars. EACH. We laughed pretty hard -- couldn't we probably rent a private jet for that?

We'll be back in time to be at work on Monday, September 29. I'm hoping we come home to a lovely Minnesota fall, rather than an early dose of winter. But given that it's going to be almost 80 degrees in both Ljubljana and Venice today, we might even be able to enjoy a nice last dose of summer while we're gone.

And one last thing: believe it or not, we're each taking only a single backpack for luggage. All y'all who like to call me "high maintenance" can suck it. ;)