Philadelphia

I left Sacramento yesterday morning bright and early after being up late packing. I love how I always wait til the last minute to do anything. Thank goodness for Brooke, Jen and Stacy...they basically packed me. After saying my goodbyes, Liz and I boarded the plane to Philly. The flight was only 4 hours long but it seemed like an eternity to me. I AM SO SCREWED. Wednesday's flights will be crazy. Maybe I'll just take some sleeping pills and wake up in a pile of drool in Moldova. Lol. In line to board the plane we met another girl who is going to Moldova with us, so there are three of us representing Sac now!

Once we arrived at the airport, around 4pm, we met up with 2 other girls who were headed to the hotel and our little group now had five. We took a shuttle to the hotel, which ran us $70 total. At first we thought this was kind of pricey but come to find out someone paid $50 for a taxi. I felt a little better for only paying $14 after that. We got to the hotel around 5:30pm and were STARVED. Skipping breakfast was not a good idea, and sorry Jen, the little cookies you gave me for the plane didn't make it with me. I had no room. :( We walked to a little sandwich/pizza shop right behind the hotel and had cheesesteaks. Yummm. It was sooo freaking good. Quote me on that. We then went back to our rooms and met up again around 8pm to go to this little place called Mc Gillin's Old Ale House. It has been around since Lincoln was elected for president-yeah, that long. There we got to meet a handful of other volunteers and chat for a few but we were tired and Liz and I cut out early and headed back to the hotel.

Now it's Tuesday and we have training at noon. We had our continental breakfast and soon I'll be putting on my business casual. We leave first thing in the morning so I'm not sure when I will be able to post again, but once I do I will be in Moldova!!! Yea!