En route...

Greeting from the lounge at the Singapore Airport. We're bleary-eyed but so far, so good. It's a pretty amazing airport--at 7:00am it was absolutely bustling with an incredible cross-section of people. Gretchen is already getting a pedicure (this is really a business trip, I promise!) We had a bit of an adventure at the Zurich Airport when we checked in because they couldn't figure out whether or not to check our bags all the way through to Vanuatu (we have to stay the night in Brisbane tonight and thought we would keep our luggage with us). To complicate things, no one there had actually heard of Vanuatu (which shouldn't be surprising since probably 98% of the world hasn't heard of Vanuatu)--they thought it was in Australia--so they really weren't sure what to do. In the end they said we had to check our bags through, so we had to pull our bags off the luggage belt to get a change of clothes--we felt a bit like refugees with our things strewn all over the check-in area. But all's well and now we're just waiting for the next leg of our trip...