Excited and Nervous...

So tomorrow morning at 6:40 am I fly to Albany, NY with John. I am pretty nervous about the whole excursion, but excited to see someplace new, and his Mom said she'd have string cheese at the house, so that helps. I actually ended up taking the day off work so that I could get ready. I waxed my eyebrows, got talked into a "gloss" on my hair, bought some new clothes and little plastic bottles to fly with. I know, I shouldn't stress out about it, but I'm the first girl he's brought home since moving to the "behave" state, so I'll be a little bit on display. You always want to go into these things with symetrical eyebrows.

Apparently John's best friend from college, Fin, is picking us up at the airport, straight from attending a Bat-Mitzvah in New Jeresy. Then we are staying at his house, with him, his girl, his sister, and her husband. It will be me, John, and 4 NY Jews. I've never been to NY, and I've never met a real Jew before. They said they will have beer and vodka on hand, and I have already packed my drinkin' hat. Hopefully vodka will transcend religious differences, I think I'll get started on the plane just to be sure.

Sunday night is the big extended family party. I think John's more nervous about this one than I am. Extended families are usually slightly embarrassing. I know I have a few of those relatives that I like to hope I'm not really that closely related too. He's nervous, but he hasn't met my uncle Monty, or my Aunt Lori, who apparently didn't bring the salad to the last get together because she was in the slammer for drug distribution. Yeah, we all have those families.

Overall, I'm really excited. It should be a beautiful time to see upstate NY. I get to have another bunch of new firsts: First meeting of the boyfriends family, first time in this little town, first time hanging out with Jews, first time shooting guns...oh my.