At last...

We FINALLY got our VISAs today. For something that took so long and caused so much stress and anxiety, they are pretty unspectacular, just a piece of paper pasted into our passports. But, they look beautiful to our limbo-weary eyes. We have made hotel reservations, shuttle reservations, plane reservations, temporarly lodging facility reservations. We leave Saturday at 6 pm. I don't think I'll believe it until I lay eyes on Big Ben, but it seems that we are really going!