Preparations

Quentin and I will leave for Kazakhstan on April 14th. We have booked our tickets through Golden Rule Travel and purchased travel insurance through Travel Protectors. Our 3 girls and I will be leaving for our drive to Idaho on Sunday. I will get them settled there and enrolled in school before we leave. Quentin will be flying out of Minneapolis and I will be flying out of Boise. We will meet up in Frankfurt, Germany! Packing has become a major operation=) I need to have spring and summer clothes with some winter stuff thrown in for the girls since they will be in Idaho until July. Then I need to pack for myself for Kaz and for Idaho. I hope everything fits into the van! I am going to have to think about getting a car top carrier soon for our summer road trips so that we can pack all our luggage.

Quentin has been busy learning Russian. So far he has taught himself how to read it, and a bit about the grammar. He is working on learning common words now. I am afraid I haven't been as good about it=) I can read it and know a few words from a high school Russian class I took (I was surprised I could still remember the alphabet!) but I haven't done much to learn more. I am traveling equipped with a phrase book and flash cards. I have always been good at cramming! From my experience in Japan I know I will be able to pick up more when we get there. It is so much easier to learn when immersed.

I am practicing adding videos to this blog, so here is one of 2 of our girls being silly=)