The moment we've all been waiting for....

So months of planning, changing plans, freaking out about price of airfares, finding awesome airfares, researching tours, accommodation & other activities... it all comes down to this... 2 sleeps to go! Unfortunately I wasn't upgraded to business or premium economy for my flights to Vancouver but I have managed to change my aisle seat in the middle of the plane to a window seat for my Vancouver to Auckland flight on the 18th September which I am happy about.

Ok so the itinerary goes a little something like this:

3rd Sept - Brisbane to Vancouver
4th Sept - City Snapshots Tour of Vancouver
5th Sept - Free Day - Aquarium & Grouse Mountain
6th Sept - Day trip to Whistler
7th Sept - Laundry (very important!) and Hamlet at Bard on the Beach (can't wait for that one!)
8th Sept - Cruise begins
9th Sept - Cruising the Inner Passage
10th Sept - Stop - Icy Strait Point
11th Sept - Hubbard Glacier
12th Sept - Stop - Juneau
13th Sept - Stop - Ketchiken
14th Sept - Cruising the Inner Passage
15th Sept - Cruise ends.  Transfer to Victoria
16th Sept - Butchart Gardens & Butterfly Gardens tour
17th Sept - Free day - wander around Victoria Harbour
18th Sept - Begin the long journey back to Brisbane
19th Sept - Flying
20th Sept - Auckland to Brisbane

So there you have it.. not much detail I know but that is pretty much how my time is gonna be spent.

What am I looking forward to the most?

• Seeing the Hubbard Glacier for sure!
• Finally getting to Victoria
• There is a bit of a possibility that we may see the Northern Lights on the 11th (http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/Alaska/2013/09/11).  This website shows the Aurora forecast for while we are on the cruise and the 11th is a good possibility if we have a clear night.  Now THAT would be a tick on the bucket list!

I'm still not as excited as I think I should be but it is slowly coming.  I think because I know tomorrow at work is going to be so full on that I won't have time to think about that fact it is my last day for nearly 3 weeks!  I guess it will come to me tho... I am looking forward to the trip and being somewhere different tho :)

When did that happen?

Just read over my last post and it mentioned that there was 7 weeks till my cruise... ok well as of tomorrow - there is only TWO WEEKS!!!!  Holy Moly time has flown.. although it didn't really seem like it at the time.

I think I am pretty much organised, just got to get insurance but other than that every thing is done.  I just need it to be now!  I am so over work at the moment and the constant "I need help", "I need things to do", "Have you got a minute, I just need you to stand behind me for 20 minutes whilst I write an email that I am going to send you anyway" that comes my way.  I sometimes wonder if anyone there thinks I have anything better to do than wait on them hand & foot

But hey.. only 15 sleeps will my first holiday of the year.  Very excited!  I have booked a shore tour in Lifou to take me to the other side of the island.  No one else has booked on so it will definitely be some "me" time.. and the other people who booked the same tour of course :)  Since I have never been to a South Pacific Island, I really have no idea what to expect - I know that "technically" NZ is a South Pacific Island but you know what I mean.

I wish I had some exciting news that has happened over the past 5 weeks (really didn't think it had been that long, but there you go), but unfortunately nothing exciting has happened - oh wait, I became and aunty for the umpteenth time just before Easter, so that's exciting.  But nothing that has happened to me... Hopefully when I write again I will be able to share some exciting news & photos :)