Saturday, my former coworkers and very good friends threw us a going away BBQ that was amazingly delicious. Saturday night, my sister came into town from up north to spend our last few days in San Diego with us and to see us off. Sunday, we had a fun-filled day in Mexico to watch the World Cup final, get our last Mexican food fix in, and just enjoy the beach for the last time. It was amazing! Monday we basically just spent finishing up our packing, laundry, and last minute errands while trying to squeeze in some final moments with our closest friends and family.
So needless to say, after a bitter-sweet 4 day weekend of fun, memories, goodbyes, and tears in San Diego, we finally arrived in Philadelphia. We had to get here a day early since orientation starts tomorrow at noon and it's such a long flight with a time change, which is fine with us! We have never been to Philly before.
Our flight was at 6:30AM out of San Diego, which means that we got there at 5AM and after a night of not much sleep (since it was our last night with our friends and family) we arrived at the airport deliriously sleepy then had to go through a very emotional goodbye to the 4 people who came with us to the airport at that ungodly hour to see us off.
Once we arrived in Philly, figured out how to get to our hotel, got to our hotel and checked in, it was already 5PM EST. We thought that everything that we wanted to see would be closed already, but to our pleasant surprise, we were still able to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Ben Franklin's grave, and Craig had a Philly cheese steak. Overall, it was a long, but very good day! There was another Peace Corps group that was already here and they are leaving for South Africa tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow starts our first day of orientation then Thursday we have to go to the clinic with the whole Peace Corps group at 7AM for all of our shots, then we check out of our hotel at 11, and by 3PM (after more orientation meetings), we are on a bus headed for New York City to fly to Paris out of JFK. We're hoping that since we're leaving so early and we don't have to be at the airport until 8:30PM (3 hours before our flight to Paris) that maybe, just MAYBE, we will get to see a little of NYC before we leave. We're not going to hold our breath, but it would be awesome if that did happen!
Thank you again to everyone for supporting us throughout this entire process, which we started a year ago, and for all of your continuing support. We are going to miss everyone so much! We know that it hasn't been easy for some of our friends and family members to go through this with us, and some of you may not understand why we would quit our good, stable jobs to join the Peace Corps for almost free, and we really appreciate you supporting us anyway.
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