Gone to Ghana

Justin left this morning for a 7 week internship in Ghana. He will be living and working in a town called Koforidua. Here is a map (I didn't know where it was either). It was a crazy week this last week with Emme's birthday and getting Justin ready to leave. We are so sad to see him go, but I am so excited for him to have this experience. Justin flew out this morning at 8:45 to New York. He is now flying somewhere over the Atlantic and will arrive in Ghana at 7:00 am their time. It is a 6 hour time difference from Utah. Justin made a blog that he will hopefully be updating daily about his adventures. The blog is...http://7weeksinghana.blogspot.com/, which can also be found on the top left of this blog. Since Justin will try to update every day, I have decided to update every day as well.

Today's update.

It has been a rough day. I knew it would be hard seeing Justin off at the airport, but I didn't think it would be this hard. I think I will feel much better when I know he has arrived safely. We didn't do much today, which is what I wanted. We did do one big thing... Emme's 12 month shots. That was rough too. Emme and I are going to visit my dad in New Mexico on Thursday and I just wanted to get it over with. She got 2 shots in each leg and 1 in each arm. She ended up with 4 bandaids. Poor girl! She was quite a trooper. After the shots we stopped at the duck pond for 10 minutes then headed over to Walgreens to get some tylenol for Emme. I happened to walk through the candy isle while I was there and thought I would get some comfort chocolate. On the way home I noticed that the package said "Great to Share." That didn't exactly help, but after I ate half the candy bar I felt much better ;)

That was our day in a nutshell. I had better post this quick before Emme destroys the envelope box she's playing with on the floor next to me.