Presidents and Provosts

Last week I encountered the dean of the school of nursing while in the copy room. He tends be somewhat elusive at times so I took the opportunity to ask him a few questions. The top question of course was regarding being able to invite students on a medical mission to Mexico City.
The response I got wasn't really what I expected, it was much more... "Perhaps we make it some sort of pilot class that could satisfy the upper division elective." Of course this sounds like something I would interested in so we set up a meeting. The meeting went very well and our gracious hosts Carlos and Carrie have already begun to set some things up for us. But there is always a however...
The proposal is now waiting on approval from the provosts. This apparently requires some rather intense communication between my dean and the president and provost, all of whom are busy people.
My email inbox is now stuffed with CC'ed messages to and from presidents and provosts. It's hard to be CC'ed on conversations between people like this, I have a difficult time not emailing back. So for now I wait, my summer plans hinging on the decisions of presidents and provosts.