Less than a week until Jacksonville, Florida!!!

I'm soooooo looking forward to Thursday night. Jason and I leave on our trip to Jacksonville on the 8:30pm flight out of Portland on Fronter then. We fly to Denver, race to catch our flight to Jacksonville and then settle in for a long plane ride. We leave at 8:30pm from Portland and with the time difference, we arrive in Jacksonville at 5am the next morning. I have never flown overnight before, I hope I can sleep. We can't check into our room until after 1pm so it should be interesting. I think we'll end up crashing in the hotel lobby for awhile. Silly me volunteered to work registration from noon until 4pm that day. They wanted me to also work registration from 7am to 10am the next morning. Since that would actually be 4am to 7am in my Pacific time zone mind, I politely turned them down. I'm looking foward to being sans children for a few days with my husband. We haven't been away together without kids since before children were even thought of. So easily it's been 7 years since we had a vacation together.

Why are we flying to Jacksonville, Florida? This year's breast cancer conference for young survivors is in Jacksonville. It's being sponsored by the Susan G Komen foundation, the LBBC(Living Beyond Breast Cancer), and the YSC(Young Survival Coalition). I am a member of the YSC and hang out at the bulletin board they have there for young survivors. It's quite humbling to be around so many awesome incredible women. Last year we had a group picture with about 35 women. This year we plan to have a picture of our little group that will have 70+ women in it. I'm having my husband take pictures.

There were so many classes or workshops to choose from. Nothing offered for the first session really interested me, so I think Jason and I will nap during that time period. I'll find all my friends and hang out with them that night. Saturday Jason and I both signed up for different classes and I'm looking forward to those classes. Things I want to know about and learn. Saturday night there is a nice dinner and dancing. The final class is on Sunday morning before the conference ends. We can't leave until Monday morning, so we have the rest of the day to play before going home. I want to go have one nice dinner there with Jason and I get a few souvenirs for the girls and then hit the sack. Maybe have a time together with a few close friends from the bb.

We leave Monday morning at 6am and arrive back in Portland around 10am. I started thinking about this. 6am flight means being at the airport by 4am. Which means leaving for the airport around 3:30am at the latest. Which means waking up by 2:30am to be completely ready and packed and find a shuttle that will take us there. Oh holy heck that's early!!!