shots and live typhoid in the fridge

Shot, to be more exact. Today I went to The Travel Clinic with Karen Lofgren for our shots - and was surprised to find that we could only get one; the yellow fever appointment will take place when five of us are all there together because there is a shortage and the doc only opens a vial of five doses when he has five victims, um, patients. And the malaria is a pill, so we take that at home along with the live typhoid capsules which are living in my fridge. Yup, behind the eggs. Don't eat at my house for a while.

This is kind of really actually happening. Each little step toward our time in Rwanda seems small but feels more and more solid (less dream-like) with each doorway I pass through. It reminds me, strangely enough, of getting married and every little thing that led to May 2nd, 1987, becoming David's wife. Three years of wacky friendship, letters, distance, dating, I love you's, gifts, holidays, families, lots more I love you's, then a diamond. Before the ring, Dave actually had to take a job and move near me, which must have been a huge deal for him! Although 5/2/87 was the day my identity changed (from just me into his wife), each little choice over 5 years moved me toward that one.

I find that sometimes choices make my other choices. I choose to go to Rwanda and help out, love a while, and come home with new eyes. But this choice is making many little choices right now: I had to get a new passport (arrived today), immunizations, do some fundraising, and basically get out of my own way to make this trip real. As real as a shot in the arm.

Hope you like the photos :)

P.S. I know why weddings are on my mind: today my parents would have had their 52nd anniversary

P.P.S. Shots schmots (doesn't work as well as risk schmisk)

TRAVEL STUFF

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