It's Almost Time

The title of this post is based on two things:
1. It's almost time for me to fly to Melbourne
2. It's almost time to head back home

Melbourne is obviously the more immediate flight - Julie and I take-off at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning to ensure we can spend 3 full days there. Our taxi is picking us up at 4:30, and we are feeling pretty proud of ourselves for figuring out our flights, transportation, hostel, and activities while we're there. We're also looking forward to the Melbourne weather - Sydney has been cold and rainy the past couple days. [Side note: Choosing to not bring a jacket of any kind to Australia was not the greatest idea. "Sydney is 360 days a year of sunshine" proved to be completely false and I have wished I had a jacket many times. Especially when going to work - it needs to warm up, or they're going to see me wearing the same (rather unprofessional) sweatshirt for the next 2 weeks!] I'm sure we're going to have a great time, can't wait for another adventure!

The second part, heading back home, is coming up pretty quickly too - 17 days. This led me to think about everything I'm going to miss here with

* Tim Tams
* Aussie accents
* Great Thai food
* The ocean & beaches
* Train rides over Sydney Harbour

being some of the first things that come to mind. Of course there are many more things that I probably won't even realize I miss until I get home.

Only a week and a half left of classes, and two left of work - so those are also great things to look forward to. And two weeks left of work until I get back to the U.S. at least - landing April 21 and heading to the Daily on April 22, and I wouldn't have it any other way.