I didn’t bother to try to go to sleep tonight. I just stayed up and finished packing and took a long bath to relax. I weighed my backpack/roll-aboard once I got it packed, and it came out to a whopping 26 pounds. Yay! I get to carry that everywhere! But it’s cool because it rolls and then if I need to huffle up stairs, I can backpack it. Very versatile! I was prepared, too. Magazines for the plane ride, an umbrella, sunglasses, camera with charger, rechargeable batteries, extra memory, seven outfits that were all mix-and-match and all of which perfectly matched the new pair of tennis shoes I was wearing. I even had room for a pretty sundress with matching espadrilles in case we went somewhere nice and a bathing suit in case we went to the beach. All my sundries fit “comfortably” (if “barely being able to zip the sucker up” counts as comfortably) into a quart-sized, ziplock bag (which I brought extras of in case it busted or got messed up), and all my valuable stuff (e.g. passport and money) fit into a lanyard around my neck, because we had heard bad things from my sister and my good friend Beth about pickpockets in Italy. We left my mom’s house; it was dark and we were TIRED! I can’t believe Brandy made it practically on time!!!
