Leaving is a process

In just four days I will be in Stockholm, Sweden (pictured right) staying at the Radisson Royal Viking Hotel. This will be the first stop on the Baylor in Great Britain (BGB) European escapades. In the next four days I'll be frantically packing and finishing up homework for the classes I'm taking while I'm abroad. I will then embark on what I'm sure will be the most epic travel day of my life. I'll be flying out of DFW, spending a ball park 10 hours in the air, then landing at Heathrow to send half of my luggage ahead of me to Imperial College. Then it's back in the air and straight to Stockholm. I'm planning on becoming an airport pro. I will fly more on the first day of this trip than I have in my entire life. Wow. Once settled into Sweden I'll get to become familiar with my first new currency, the Swedish krona. Today one U.S. dollar is equal to 7.66 krona. I'll deal in five currencies on this trip... so converting has become a new matter of interest to me. While in Sweden I plan to see a few palaces and check out the Vasa, a warship that sunk in 1628 and has been revived. Other than that, I'm open to suggestion.
It's strange to think that I'll be overseas in just four days... honestly I can't seem to wrap my head around it. The next blog I write will be in a foreign country (I really have no time for more while I'm at home). I'm excited. I find myself wondering about who all I'll meet and what all there is to see, more than I can imagine I'm sure. This is going to be the trip of a lifetime and I know that I'm incredibly blessed to be getting to go. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Papa, and Nana. And thanks to my church home FBC Roscoe, and to all of my other wonderful friends for all the prayers and support. I'll be thinking of yall while I'm abroad and get ready because I plan to come home with some stories worth telling.