So I started packing up our wardrobe today.  Boxes and boxes of stuff I won’t need while we are travelling and needs to go in storage.  Amazing how many clothes you forget you have.  I have minimalized my toilet bag so that it fits in the 70 litres that is our backpack rolling bag.  I’m looking forward to being so limited in what to wear again.  Does it stink?  Nope ok then it’s good to go!

Today was a booking day for the few things that we have decided to sort before we go.  Booked Hotel in Hong Kong… had a lot of awesome choices and ended up going with Hotel Jen! Finally someone listened to me and named their hotel JEN!! It has a swim up Jen bar! The restaurant is called Jen!  Don’t care if it’s in the wrong part of town (not sure what the right side of Hong Kong is to be fair).  It’s called JEN!

I have successfully applied for a Vietnam Visa (although need to wait 72 hours for confirmation that it worked).  They only asked me one question (apart from passport details etc.) “What is your religion?”. Athiest, Agnostic, Jedi and Pastafarian were not options fyi.

Have also booked a place in Hanoi for when we arrive.  Daisy from the front desk has just emailed me to say how happy they are that we have booked with them and would we like them to pick us up at the Airport.  She also wanted to advise that apart from the family suite and the mini suite none of the rooms have windows.  Funny when you look at the photos you don’t notice that until you look back at them.  Never mind, $60 a night you can’t go wrong.

Cuba Visa proving really tricky.  Because we are going via boat from the USA the Cuban embassy in NZ says that their visa won’t be valid to board the boat (only if we fly).  The Cruise Line isn’t able to process  our visa for us because we aren’t Americans.  I’ve emailed the embassy and I have high hopes that everything will be fine :-).  We can’t be the only kiwis to cruise to Cuba!

Anyhoo.. our first adventure starts on Thursday when we fly to Queenstown for Warbirds over Wanaka.  This year we get to take Barrie and Dawn into the corporate tent.  They are really going to love it!  (I love a good airshow especially when it involves corporate tents).

The countdown is on… tick tick tick tick tick