We're on our way!

It's going to be a long day after two long weeks of visitors, packing, and test taking! We have about 12 hours of flight ahead of us, and we're excited to get there (in about 20 hours, bleh).

Clif and I have been talking about how we love to see people's reactions when we tell them we're moving to American Samoa. The reactions are pretty crazy, especially when we get lazy and just say Samoa. Here are some of my favorites:

- "Where's that? Arizona?" (seriously, twice!)

- "Are you taking your kids with you?" (I kept wanting to say, "Oh, we're just putting them in the storage shed with the rest of the things we want to keep" but I never did)

- jaw drop - "why!?"

- "oh yeah. That's in Hawaii, right?" (from the cool people who are very sure of their knowledge)

- "I knew Samoa was a place. There's a girl I know who thought Samoans were from Hawaii."

- "He'll do his time easier than you'll do your time in Samoa" (Clif's boss after a client was sentenced to prison time)

- "Will you send me a postcard?" (which only sounds weird when you know it was a random person I sold a piece of furniture to through craigslist)

I think Erin has heard the best one when two people started discussing the "fact" that Fijians live in Samoa and Samoans live in Hawaii.

And, it turns out that I grossly underestimated our time in the air - by an HOUR! And yes, an hour makes a huge difference.