Come Tuesday
08/25/2010 05:54 p.m.

Well, it's finally here, the "less than a week" mark for Adam's arrival. His journey actually begins on Monday with a nearly five hour train ride to London, then a 12 hour wait spent mostly at a London hotel, then a ten hour flight from London to Houston, then the anticipation of customs and whether or not they'll actually let him through to his connecting flight of four and a half hours to Portland. He arrives in Portland at 5:30 Tuesday.

The journey at my end starts Tuesday morning, with a whirlwind day of taking my dogs to the kennell, packing, getting my mother sorted once she gets here to care for Meme, and finally heading to the airport around 1:00 pm so I'll be there in plenty of time should his plane land a little early. :))

From there, we have our first night together booked at the Mariott plus a 3-D Avatar Special Edition movie planned. Then sleep. Complimentary breakfast buffet and maybe a swim, a shower and then the 2 1/2 hour drive to the coast for four more days...a room with a private balcony and steps that lead right down onto the sand. Casino night, a trip to the Newport Aquarium, a bonfire on the beach with s'mores, snuggling and watching movies, champagne, a little greenery perhaps, exploring the coast, and listening to the roar of the ocean. And most exquisitely, the happy anticipation of beginning our six week adventure of integration. Heh.

I have my hopes, however slightly suspended by past experience and a sense of allowing reality to be what it is....but certainly faith that the universe will still guide me through the maze of what it takes to facilitate growth of the best kind, for each of us, always.

And I sense the strange waiting on the edge of your seat....yes, you....looking to see how it will all unfold. I post here, after all, to satisfy your keen sense of curiosity about what it looks like to make some sort of measureable progress in life while engaging in the somewhat risky processes I occasionally seem to embrace.

Heh.

I am currently: watching the countdown
Listening to: time bend