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And We Are Off!!!!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Well after some teary goodbyes and calling home to friends we are leaving to the airport in 1 hour!!!  I can’t believe it is that time already.  Time seemed to pass us by just a little to fast.  We are really going to miss all of you very very much.   You all have to come visit us from time to time.  There is no excuses all of you have a vacation to kill somewhere, so might as well be with us. 🙂  

On the other side of that we are really excited about starting our adventure to the great unknown.  It is going to be hard not having a job.  And maybe I might go a bit insane while we are out and about.  Who knows.  Jared is going to be there to take care of me right.  Jared told me the other day that if anything were to happen to him on this trip that I must immeditaly go to the airport and go home cuz I could not do it with out him.  Well I think there might be some truth to that.  I think I would wander off in the woods somewhere and get lost with out him.  It is a good thing we are going together, right.    I hope I bring something to this relationship!!!  🙂   

27 Days to go!!!

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Well okay I don’t have much to report other than we are in the last month!  Maryanne has finally gotten excited, as for me I have always been excited!  There is only a few things left that we have to do before we take off.  Just a few boxes to mail off, two more shots, sell our dining room table, etc.  We decided to bring an extra backpack, mostly for our snorkel gear and large liquid bottles we know we can’t have as carryon stuff.  Luckily our first 2 months we will be in one place.  So I don’t mind having the extra weight!  Even though at the moment I am only around 35lbs.  Which considering I used to hike with over 100lbs of weight, I should be okay.  Then again I am not 20 years old, but still in good enough shape for 35lbs.  I don’t see us walking over a few miles anyway with our packs, so we will be in good shape.  Maryanne just got her packing cubes in the mail, so she will be figuring out what exactly she is going to bring.  The packing cubes really do make a big difference in terms of keeping things in order and leaving a lot of extra room in the pack.  Okay I have rambled enough, I am just so excited!!!

Getting Closer

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Well today we finally did it, we got our one-way tickets to Thailand!!!!!  We were going to do it yesterday when we booked our Dive Master course, but of course Qatar Airways website was down.  Oh well we got them ... [Continue reading this entry]

40 Days and 28 Working Days to go!!

Monday, April 21st, 2008
We are getting so close I am almost ready to explode with excitement!  Coming to work is so tough, seems like all I want to do is call in sick all the time.  I did say the other day that ... [Continue reading this entry]

92 days and only 45 working days till we leave!!

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Hello all!  Maryanne finally let me write on our blog (okay she showed me how to login to our site).   Of the two of us I am the planner/worrier/anal retentive/retard of our duo.  As for planning, I had it all ... [Continue reading this entry]

98 Days until we leave

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Well First off I have to say I live in a great country (Qatar).  Jared and I just got all my Vaccines and you will never believe how much they cost me…….. 10 QR that is a ... [Continue reading this entry]