Tickets and Fundraising!

Exciting Exciting News! Our tickets to Michigan have been officially purchased!! We will leave DIA at around 9 am on October 25th and arrive in South Bend Indiana at around 5 in the afternoon where we will be picked up and taken to our new home at IICD in Dewagiac Michigan where we will begin our adventure!
When August rolled around I started to realize how close October is and now that our tickets are purchased the whole things is feeling really real! I think about how fast this summer has gone by and I am realizing that it is time to start getting in some serious quality time with our friends and families. This will be the longest either of us have been out of Colorado, away from our families, or out of the country. It is a very new and different experience and it will be like nothing we have ever done before. It is hard to imagine being away from the people that play such an important role in my life while also living in such drastically different living conditions and going through so much both physically as well as emotionally. Its starting to feel so intense but still so exciting. We will truly be thrown out of our comfort zones so many times and in so many different ways throughout the year we will be gone and this can only offer us an incredible number of opportunities to learn more about who we really are and our places in the world around us.

We are still working on fundraising (check out our Fundraising Thermometer on our blog!) and although we have had some hiccups in our plans things are still moving! We are having a family fundraising party in couple of weeks which is very exciting. We were going to send out fundraising letters to our families and then we thought, this is our family! We figured we might as well have an opportunity to get the whole family together and spend quality time with them instead of just sending out a formal letter to the people we love. We are also still working on a wine tasting event and we will have more details coming soon!

Keep checking back for more exciting articles about Belize and more updates about our journey!