I have great expectancy for this trip to Swaziland.

I start the journey Saturday morning as I head from Burlington, Vt., to Chicago. There, I'll be meeting two of my best friends, who were part of our team in Ethiopia last summer. We'll stay in Chi-town overnight and then meet the rest of the group late Sunday. Our plane leaves Chi-town at 10 p.m., from there we'll head to Frankfurt, where we have about a 9-hour layover -- enough time to tour a castle or something, and then we fly to Johannesburg, South Africa. Once we get there, we take a 5ish-hour bus ride to Swaziland. It will be so nice to sleep laying down after all that traveling lol!