Counting down

A week from tonight, Lego Lover and I will be embarking on our travel adventure. Right now, a week still seems a long way off but I suppose it will be here in no time  at all. All the major spending has been done on tickets, passports and travel insurance. I still need to see my gp next Thursday morning  to get a couple prescriptions sorted out before I leave.  I’ve been working on getting my laptop ready to travel. I’d been trying to use the wi-fi at our local library and it wasn’t working properly after a couple of tries. Yesterday, the Scientist accompanied me and worked out the problem was settings-related. I’m glad this is sorted out now instead of while traveling.

I’m planning to use a  backpack to hold my laptop and carry on items unless it works out to be too heavy that way. Otherwise, I will use the backback as my carry on luggage and put the laptop in it’s usual case. I still need to find a backpack for Lego Lover that won’t be too heavy or too expensive. We’re not having much luck finding anything with a reasonable price as yet so we might end up changing to a more affordable option.

And speaking of money, I’m really not too pleased to see the value of the Australian dollar has been plummeting just before we are set to leave. We’ve had a good exchange rate for months and this happens just now. I’m going to try to be optimistic and hope it stalls and recovers now.