I'm leavin' on a jet plane

"My bags are packed and ready to go," and my flight leaves in about 45 minutes. I look forward to getting over this nagging cold I have had for over a week, and getting in some sweet riding. I finally finished the two college applications my mom was making me finish before I left, at 8:30 last night, which was when I was supposed to go to bed to get adjusted to the time difference. After finishing those, I still had the bulk of my packing to do. It was a long night, and I didn't even finish packing until this morning. I have learned that it is definitely not my area of expertise. When I began to move my bag to the first floor, I realized it was not the easiest to pick up. I put it on the scale, and it was 58 pounds. Crap. I had to shift, rearrange, and take out a bunch of junk, and then when we arrived at the airport it was still 5 pounds over! As I really didn't want to take anything out, we were going to pay the overweight fee... that was until he told us it was a whopping 381 dollars! My family and I scurried to remove the extra stuff, which we did, much to my dismay, and now I am here at the gate. I'm really excited to embark on this trip, and do some awesome bike racing. It'll be tough, but should be cool, and a really good learning experience. Thanks for reading, and to the few of you who did, I hope you enjoyed. I will try to update this again when I arrive.