Saturday 9 July 2011

Last minute jitters

What the hell am I doing?  I have butterflies (the large economy size) in my stomach. I am almost 60 fercryingoutloud! Why couldn't I have just settled for a nice 2 weeks in Bali and then back to work with the snapshots like normal sane people, Ah! I think therein lies the answer. Oh well!  As Helen Keller said " Life is either a great adventure or nothing"

Friday 8 July 2011

Getting to the nitty gritty :) Part#3

"My bags are packed - I'm ready to go". Now I'll sit and look at my packed bag for three days! Afraid to open it because I'll never be able to close it again. I'll just carry it around all zipped up forever.

Thursday 7 July 2011

Getting to the nitty gritty :( Part #2

After three tamper tantrums and much "Oh my Golly Goshes" I got my stupid stuff into my stupid bag and am ready to catch the stupid plane....How hard is it for a bag company to make a bag that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside...just can't be that hard!!  Anyway...I have calmed down considerably and haven't had to resort to artificial stimulants so all is good  :)

Getting to the nitty gritty :(

Today was the first attempt at packing the mountains of "stuff" (all indispensible of course) into the purple people eater (my back pack).  Aim is to fit it all in and come in under 20 kg. Good news is it only weighed 17.6 kgs - way to go me!!! Bad news is I still haven't packed toiletries or footwear. This leaves me in the predicament of being a smelly, barefoot but neatly back packed Aussie tourist. Will probably fit in well with all the other Aussie backpackers then lol.  Well ....better go and give it another shot!!!