It's time to go

I woke in the dark after tossing and turning.

The suitcase is zipped, and bursting with the Winnie the Pooh pillow,

and the one that goes between my knees, a silly one, really.

I can't believe I'm taking them to Senegal.

As expected, I won't be in the room I asked for, this is 

Africa.

Nothing goes as planned. 

Excited, nervous, all of the above,

I will look down on the clouds

and wonder what is below.