We have a bed!!

The stress level has reduced significantly!! We have a place to stay our first two nights. Man, was I getting worried there. We are staying at Fjellsiden Guesthouse. Say that three times fast! This is not the place I was talking about yesterday. I had an email from him this morning saying that his guest decided to stay through the weekend. I had a feeling that would happen, so last night I did some more research and found this place. I went ahead and emailed just in case, and they have room! Yay!!

On top of that, we have a room in Helsinki now too. It's weird. All of the hostels there are booked already. We don't want to stay there until the 27th, but everything's booked. I actually emailed two different hotels about staying with them, and got a yes from both! First time that's happened in this trip planning effort. I felt bad turning the one down. In his response, he said, "Thank you for your nice email." But it was a little farther out, and I know at the end of the day Chris will appreciate being close to everything.

So, at this point the only places we don't have rooms are Tallinn, Estonia and Copenhagen. Tallinn's hostels still have beds, so I'm not too worried there, and Rick Steves mentions the place I stayed when I visited Copenhagen 10 years ago. How can it be 10 years already? That means next year I will have been out of college for 10 years. 10 years!!!! Let's not talk about it any more. Back to the topic at hand.....Rickey mentions the place we stayed back then. I think he calls it unimpressive. We quite liked it (I remember the breakfast being great - first time I ever had yougurt on my granola - probably 'cuz I couldn't stand to put whole milk on it, LOL! that hasn't changed in 10 years!). Funny what being poor college students and adding 10 years can do, huh? I thought it would be really cool to stay there again. I'm going to check into it, but there are also a couple of places I've heard good things about that I'll check out too.

Today, I'm doing a couple of last minute details. Picking up my new shoes that had to be tweaked at the cobbler (I love calling the shoe repair guy the cobbler), getting a lens hood for one of my lenses & seeing about getting the camera cleaned. Oh yeah, and packing. We still have piles....nothing in bags yet. I had some laundry to do. Now if I can just keep from wearing my clean clothes before we go!

I'm also scrapbooking with Mom and Rachel at Scraphappy's. It's good for me to do something that keeps my mind off of the fact that WE'RE GOING TO EUROPE IN 2 DAYS!! I could very easily cross the threshold from happy/excited into freaking out. I'm working on finishing up a scrapbook of our last European trip. I took all of my blog entries from that trip (they are Sept. 28, 2005 - Oct. 8, 2005), copied them, and laid the text out across 35(ish) pages, leaving room for pictures to tell the stories. It's quickly become one of my favorite scrapbooks ever. I love going back through and reading everything. It also makes me know I want to do the blogging again this trip. I can't wait to come home and make another one of these of this trip. But, I really want to have the one from the last trip done before we leave. So, off I go.....