In less than twelve hours I'll embark on my journey towards the Java In Action conference in Orlando.

There's a lot of first times for me here:

• it's the first time I travel to the United States
• it's the first time I'll be on a 14-hour flight
• it's the first time I'm officially invited as a speaker for an IT conference
• it's the first time I'll be without our cats for a week
• it's the first time I'll meet my friend and colleague JR in real life
• it's the first time I'll spend time with a lot of Java bloggers and IRC friends
• it's the first time I'll be very close to Disney world, but don't plan on seeing the inside of it even though I'm staying at Disney's yard club resort

I'm really anxious to be there and I'm sure that it will be a lot of fun!

See you there!