I usually start planning our trips about a year in advance and there are times that it drags and seems like it will never get here and then there are times that I get so busy like around holidays and birthdays that I think wow where did the time go. We go in the beginning of May so i still have time left but to make time go by faster we plan other thing in between, like in February we are taking our boys to Kalahari, it just gives us other thing to look forward to.