Here's a link to the hotel I'm reserving for when Mike and I stay in Heidelberg:
http://www.ritter-heidelberg.de/index_e.html This place just looks so beautiful, and the rooms are gorgeous. I'm going to reserve one of the Deluxe rooms so that we have hard wood floors and the like. This is the only place (scratch that, the only THING) that Mike has allowed me to plan and research and book, so now that I've actually gotten an ACTIVE role in the planning, I'm ten times more giddy than I have been up to this point.
Last night I had dream after dream about things going totally wrong. In my first dream, I insisted on packing and repacking so many times the day that I was supposed to leave that I didn't leave home for the airport until the plane was supposed to leave. The second dream I had, I packed nothing that we needed and just a bunch of total crap. The third dream I had, something went wrong with the plane and we wound up coming back and not going. It was a bad dream night, but I think it just means that my mind is addressing all of the things that might go wrong so that I can be prepared.
I just did my first set of packing, seperating everything out into checked luggage and carry-on stuff. This whole business of 3 oz bottles of liquids and the like is really a pain in the ass, and I really don't see how it solves much of anything. But, at any rate, I think if I'm already all packed and ready to go, I should be ok if I think of anything I need I can just set it in as the week wears on. As of tomorrow, Mike and I can officially start saying "See you next week!" and it will be true!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I'm sorry, I know I'm probably driving everyone crazy with my excitement.
I can't wait to see Southern Germany and France with this man. I'm so giddy that I'm actually going to see Mike so soon, I'm having a hard time concentrating on anything else. And it's not even the week I leave yet!
Alright, I'll be done for today.