Leaving for New York City

We are leaving tomorrow morning for New York City (a 6:35 am flight!), where we will spend four days with friends. We hope to see Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" in Central Park, the New York Public Library, maybe even Ground Zero. Last minute preparations and family gatherings have exhausted us and right now I (Lee) think I'm looking forward to going to bed more than getting started on our long-awaited journey. Faith is feeling much the same, and perhaps this is why we are so calm. Or maybe it's because we've lived with the _idea_ of leaving for so long (over 5 months) that, emotionally, we can't quite grasp the fact that our time in South Dakota really has run out. Yet surely this is temporary. Surely this chrysalis of normalcy is just about to break.

Good night.