The trip is happening over Thanksgiving weekend--so Nov. 22-25, 2012. BTW, I like your signature--I had very much the same realization when I was in Iraq back in '05.
"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us." Jn 1:14
"The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted: So it must be restored." -St. Edmund Campion (+1581)