Train whistles are blowing

After much (and the word much is quite the understatement) researching using "Europe by Eurail 2008," several Eurail websites, friendly recommendations, and several hours on the phone with Eurail customer service who proved to be much less than helpful, we decided on a Eurail pass that we thought was the most fitting and economical for us. Let me tell you, finding the right pass at the right price is quite a challenge, so if you are planning a trip, leave yourself plenty of time to look into this.
We simultaneously clicked the "purchase now" button on the Eurail website. We aren't going to lie, even with all of our researching, we still had our fingers crossed that we had purchased the right pass. We are pretty confident with our decision however, and even if it turns out that we needed more (or less) travel days, we are pretty clever in finding ways to work it out.
So what pass did we choose? The Eurail Select Pass that can be used between any 5 adjoining countries on 8 separate, non-consecutive days, within 2 months. 5 countries you say? and we are visiting 7? We are taking the Thalys train from The Netherlands to Belgium, and from Belgium to France, in addition to our Eurail pass. So the passes won't be activated until we leave France and head for Italy. We did this because the Thalys tends to be cheaper than most of the other Eurail trains, and if you take the Thalys with your Eurail pass, they hit you with additional charges anyway.
Our passes arrived in the mail to Nicole's house about 3 days later; it's finally gradually starting to sink in that we are leaving. Soon.