I’m about to take the shortest “vacation” (ha ha… vacation) in my life.

My tourist visa is expiring this weekend, so you’ll never believe how I’ll get to spend my Wednesday!! ( <---- sarcastic excitement) On a vacation to one of the most beautiful places on earth (okay, so I’m TOTALLY lying now)!

Because my visa is expiring, I am required to leave the country and obtain a new one. So, today I will fly out of Kuwait (with my parents and sister, because they actually are going on vacation), sit at the Qatar airport for a couple of hours, and then fly back to Kuwait that same day and get a new stamp. All that for a stamp! Pretty expensive trip for a stamp.

I wish Will could have went along with me, but its sort of silly for him to pay for a ticket when I’ll be with my parents. It just would have made those few hourts of sitting at the airport more fun.

I am such a goof. I got a little misty eyed as I said bye to him this morning. I know I’ll see him at the airport when I get back, but I’m all nervous about having to do all this visa stuff alone, so I was sort of sad. I told him I’ve never been a whole country away from him before! He just sort of laughed.

To him I’ll just see him a few hours later than normal- he sees the beginning and end. I, however, see all the details in between from who I’m going to sit by on the way home to getting my visa stamped by the scary Kuwait army men. I can’t just go from start all the way to finish, I am focusing WAY to much on the journey today!  This is totally different than doing things back in the states- I feel like a kid who got lost in the grocery store! I wish I had Will to hold my hand while I did all this! I sound so silly, but I guess that’s okay.  This is sort of a new things today, so it’s okay to feel like a small fish in a big pond as I venture on my own for the very first time in over three months (isn’t that crazy!? I have not done anything alone in over 3 months! wow)!

This whole thing should be quite an experience.

Here’s the kicker… I might have to do this whole thing AGAIN in a few days! Because I just got a job, the company will need to get me a working visa and I can’t be in the country while they obtain that because they will have to cancel my tourist visa. So, I will have to fly out again, but this time for a few days until they are able to get me one. Such madness!

I guess I’ve unknowingly started a goal to visit all the Middle Eastern states in a week’s span or something! Hopefully Will will go with me on that trip. Someone will have to be with me then, but it would actually seem more like a vacation if Will got to go. If not, one of my parents will have to. It’s just not safe for a young American girl to be out alone for all the guys wanting their second or third wife.

I’ll be a Middle Eastern world traveler by September! So anyway, I’m sure I’ll have interesting things to report tomorrow after this adventure.

See you all Thursday and have a good Wednesday