One week to go...

Time has been crawling and racing at the same time. And all of a sudden, we only have one week left before we leave for Bamenda, Cameroon. And we are excited!

The apartment/flat is almost empty. The suitcases are packed and down to the allocated weight. A shipment has left for Canada. The cleaners come on Friday. Not much left to do.

We had a great week. Thursday was our farewell party at the Monkey Puzzle (where else would we have it?) and it was wonderful to have so many great friends show up and spend time with us. Now if I could only get Dave to upload the photos from his new camera, you would see what I mean.

Last night, we had another great farewell party, hosted by Pat Grey, a former colleague and friend from my days at fpa. Many of the fpa gang was there and that was a real treat. How come one has to be on the verge of leaving before re-connecting with special friends? We do so get caught up in our own little lives...

Tomorrow we leave for Edinburgh and 4 days in the Scottish highlands. Crossing our fingers that the tour we booked will go ahead despite the fact that is not the height of the tourist season. If not, we will figure out some way to travel around and enjoy this one part of the UK we have not seen so far. This will be our break before starting a completely new life.

By the way, we still don't have an address in Bamenda but I will make sure that I send it to everyone as soon as I do.

With all this activity, it still hits that we are leaving a place where we have been very happy. We have met some very special people here. We pray that distance will not make us lose touch, but as if often the case, will give encourage us to keep in touch.

We will miss everyone here.