We're going!

Our visas arrived today to our great surprise.  I was actually called by the president of the International Institute of Education who greatly sympathized with our predicament of waiting and living down in our basement while waiting.  He personally got the Embassy of Indonesia going on processing the visas and the passports came (to our mailbox) through Express Mail.  Good thing we called and found out they had been left there.  Anyway, now it is all excitement, all the time, anticipating the complete newness of Asia, its sounds, smells, people, food.  It will be overwhelming for  quite a while, I'm sure.  But we're going.