When your car has a flat tire and it’s -34, there’s not a lot to do, so I thought I’d provide a quick update on our trip for everyone who is interested! We got a little distracted and really neglected this blog throughout the Olympics (we are the type of people who watch the games to see the Molson Canadian beer commercials that make us cry) so now that they’re over, we are back on track and hoping to make some progress!
The fact that we’re leaving in 60 days is giving us heart palpitations, so that goes to show how excited/terrified we are of jetting off to Ghana! We’re in the process of finalizing EVERYTHING possible right now-Africa is completely good to go, but our journey afterwards is throwing us for a bit of a loop. It’s one thing to say “we’re going to Ireland” but another thing to actually figure out what we plan to do in Ireland. Regardless of this, we keep getting really distracted every time we get together for “planning sessions” so that’s something that we need to work on. The last time we sat down to “plan,” we ended up spending 2 hours looking at clothes/recipes/cat pictures/ghosts on pinterest, another hour pretending to do the insanity workout, and finished it up by watching some good old “Say Yes to the Dress” episodes while googling pictures of Amsterdam.
Anyways, on the one day last week that we actually were productive (and by productive, I mean we went shopping for clothes), I decided to do a practice pack and get an idea of what my bag is going to look like for our trip. It is our sincerest hope that we can make everything fit on carry-on, so packing versatile items has become a necessity.
With the last half of our school semester kicking into high gear, our Europe planning time has been cut in half. We are hoping this will provide appropriate motivation to get some stuff figured out on Tuesday, where we plan to sit down and have a massive planning session! We will, of course, keep everyone posted with how that goes!
-L
The fact that we’re leaving in 60 days is giving us heart palpitations, so that goes to show how excited/terrified we are of jetting off to Ghana! We’re in the process of finalizing EVERYTHING possible right now-Africa is completely good to go, but our journey afterwards is throwing us for a bit of a loop. It’s one thing to say “we’re going to Ireland” but another thing to actually figure out what we plan to do in Ireland. Regardless of this, we keep getting really distracted every time we get together for “planning sessions” so that’s something that we need to work on. The last time we sat down to “plan,” we ended up spending 2 hours looking at clothes/recipes/cat pictures/ghosts on pinterest, another hour pretending to do the insanity workout, and finished it up by watching some good old “Say Yes to the Dress” episodes while googling pictures of Amsterdam.
Anyways, on the one day last week that we actually were productive (and by productive, I mean we went shopping for clothes), I decided to do a practice pack and get an idea of what my bag is going to look like for our trip. It is our sincerest hope that we can make everything fit on carry-on, so packing versatile items has become a necessity.
With the last half of our school semester kicking into high gear, our Europe planning time has been cut in half. We are hoping this will provide appropriate motivation to get some stuff figured out on Tuesday, where we plan to sit down and have a massive planning session! We will, of course, keep everyone posted with how that goes!
-L