World Travellers – Part VIII
Thursday, August 28th, 2008We are struggling with each other.
She’s an Aussie, but I won’t hold *that* against her!
She duly noted I’m a kiwi, but that wasn’t the issue for her either.
She can’t get her head round eight kids. Having kids is OK. Travelling is fine. Travelling with kids is even acceptable in her books (though she does point out the parents she’s observed on the road have trouble – eek!)
Her problem is EIGHT kids.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Yep, that’s right.
Eight.
Anyway, my problem is a simple outright case of jealousy. Her website looks just like I wanted mine to look. If anyone saw my paper mock-ups, you’d be surprised at the similarities. Ah well. I suspect too-too-ing around with my eight kids may have prevented me from devoting more hours to being able to learn what she did to get what I wanted.
I’ll keep the kids 😉 And you ought to go have a look at her website.
Most of us were lucky enough to have the intradermal rabies jabs - lucky I say, because they were "only" $60 as opposed to $180 a pop for intramuscular ones (and we needed three each - yeah, ... 
the pictures are off the wall
we've started to pack our stuff away
a little each day
and every time we walk up the hall
we're surprised to not see our younger selves
smiling down at our now older current ... 
Just in case we lose the bag containing our on-road-medical-supplies and need to replace everything, here's the list. Our lovely doctor definitely errs on the side of caution and would happily have sent us off ... 
Had our very first plans for this trip come off, we would have been in China by now. Along with most every other tourist in the world.
But I suspect we've seen more of the Olympic ... 
It's altogether possible that for the first six months, a dozen chopsticks is all we'll need.
So we by-passed the fancy-schmancy ultra-light with inversely-proportioned-pricetag cutlery sets at Kathmandu, and opted instead to pick up a knife-n-fork ... 
add neck flap to son's cap.....take daughter's skirt in.....purchase presents for family in Malaysia (and then spontaneously make gift bags out of funky NZ fabric)....work out time line for ... 
rayres