Departure Day April 19th

Well we are on our way! We are writing this from the United Red Carpet Club in Frankfurt Germany. No problems on the way over. Our travel agent got us the best seats in Economy Plus - HUGE leg room. Yesterday was a bit stressful with all of the final preparations, the five bags of checked luggage, the house preparations and of course saying good-bye to Bacio, Luigi and Lucy - as well as our family. Laura of course was the organizing master with all our paperwork, gifts, donations etc. We had to pay for our overweight bags but really not a big deal. I am worried that we may have to drag them up several flights of stairs when we arrive at the hotel or apt (not known) in Almaty at midnight Thursday local time. We are just taking it one step at a time and going with the flow.