Good morning, all! Hope you are having fabulous days, or had fabulous days for those of ...
Just got interrupted by my nice neighbour to tell us that our dog was out and about. She's a standard poodle, and a real suck. Her name is Georgie. Anyways, back gate shut, dog back in the house, and I'm back.
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It's hot and sunny today, and we are trying (in vain) to clean the house and pack for camp tomorrow. I'm going to be a camp nurse for the week at a children's sleepaway camp, and the whole famn damily is coming with me. No cooking or cleaning for a week! The kids will swim, do crafts, horseback ride, etc. We get a nice cabin to ourselves. Being the Taurus that I am, I am nervous of unknown situations, so I am a bit anxious today.
Almost done my packing for our cruise - I think I have too many nice clothes. They pack light though, so I may just bring them and see what I feel like wearing for dinner. I'd like to change out of day clothes into something nice for dinner, but nothing too fancy. I'm splitting our packing into Barcelona bags and Cruise bags so that most of our suitcases can remain closed while in Barcelona. We are going to be doing laundry in the first few days of the cruise, for sure. The logistics of packing for 5 people is a bit daunting, especially when you can't go back home! Add to that a 3 yr old who is potty training....
I have also completed our budget and my fingers have been flying searching prices for attractions in the ports etc so I can accurately give a budget. Food is stymying (sp?) me but we are ballparking high. We don't tend to buy a lot of souvenirs and are limiting the kids to $75 each for the 3 weeks (not the little one). That seems reasonable and gives them some purchasing experience? I am prepaying my MC so wanted to end up at home debt-free, so needed to calculate how much to apply in advance, and needed to know how many euros and US$ we need. It's all a bit complicated, no? Anyways I am done and feel good about our budget being liveable but responsible.
Off topic, but DH and I are planning on buying a class C motorhome next year. We want to drive to California, Utah, Arizona, Montana (taking a month+ - it's about 5000+ kms each way). We also want to return to the Canadian East Coast again (about 5000km return), and back down to DW (about 5000km return also). So with 3 big trips planned in the next 6 years, as well as our love for camping locally, we are thinking it would be a great thing for us. I can't imagine taking the huge drive to California in our minivan - my ears and um, butt, (or nose, really!) couldn't take 5 or 6 of us in a van for that long, even if we took it slow. It is a dream to show my kids the lower 48 plus the Canadian provinces - all of them. We have done about 12 US states so far by road, and 4 Canadian provinces. If you can't torture kids with roadtrips when they are young, everyone loses out!
Anyone out there have a class C?
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