Let December 2, 2013 at 9pm be a moment that goes down in history! Yes folks, that moment marks the official start of our adventure because... WE BOOKED OUR FLIGHTS!!
It's real now... we are really flying out to Accra, Ghana on May 2, 2014! And our flight home is scheduled from Dublin, Ireland on June 24! There's no going back - we're spending almost 2 full months abroad next year whether we like it or not.
Of course, booking flights wasn't that simple; nothing is ever quite as simple as Kiri and I think it will be. First of all, Kiri's 10 minute drive to my house turned into a 30min adventure thanks to a wonderful snow storm that hit Alberta... although we weren't complaining; it gave us both the day off school! Then, once she got to my house, it took about 4 hours of mad googling on 5 different computers just to book the Africa flight (my brother has pictures to prove it). And being the incredibly skeptical people we are, hitting the "purchase flights" button took a solid 3 minutes of us talking each other up to it (we're convinced a lot of the time that everything is scam haha). But once we did, we quickly saw all the confirmation numbers and then the REAL excitement kicked in. At least, it did for me... Kiri was surprisingly calm. She kept telling me to "play it cool man" (she even put on some music by Bastille to try and calm me down) but there was no playing it cool last night WE ARE OFFICIALLY GOING TO AFRICA!
Once we overcame the hurdle of booking the first flight, everything else got much easier. We were much calmer (and by we, I mean mostly me) and we were finally feeling like everything that we've been talking about for the past 8 months is real. This thought is mostly exciting, but slightly terrifying because now we have to figure out a lot of things... namely, how we intend to get from Ghana to Ireland in just under 2 months.
-L
It's real now... we are really flying out to Accra, Ghana on May 2, 2014! And our flight home is scheduled from Dublin, Ireland on June 24! There's no going back - we're spending almost 2 full months abroad next year whether we like it or not.
Of course, booking flights wasn't that simple; nothing is ever quite as simple as Kiri and I think it will be. First of all, Kiri's 10 minute drive to my house turned into a 30min adventure thanks to a wonderful snow storm that hit Alberta... although we weren't complaining; it gave us both the day off school! Then, once she got to my house, it took about 4 hours of mad googling on 5 different computers just to book the Africa flight (my brother has pictures to prove it). And being the incredibly skeptical people we are, hitting the "purchase flights" button took a solid 3 minutes of us talking each other up to it (we're convinced a lot of the time that everything is scam haha). But once we did, we quickly saw all the confirmation numbers and then the REAL excitement kicked in. At least, it did for me... Kiri was surprisingly calm. She kept telling me to "play it cool man" (she even put on some music by Bastille to try and calm me down) but there was no playing it cool last night WE ARE OFFICIALLY GOING TO AFRICA!
Once we overcame the hurdle of booking the first flight, everything else got much easier. We were much calmer (and by we, I mean mostly me) and we were finally feeling like everything that we've been talking about for the past 8 months is real. This thought is mostly exciting, but slightly terrifying because now we have to figure out a lot of things... namely, how we intend to get from Ghana to Ireland in just under 2 months.
-L