Leonard Family Around the World Adventure

Last night we spent some time predicting our costs on the rod and determining how close to budget we are - that was scary - it looks like we are going to be 50% over our original estimate. A little disconcerting but we are committed. Today noticed that an online hotel booking service http://www.smartstays.com/ billed our Visa 3 times. Another item we need to follow-up on. Another trip to REI scheduled today - to exchange some shoes for Allysha, change the color of Pam's shoes and for me to return a pair of pants. Also need to look for a belt. Also headed to pick up our Passport and Indian Visa's and a Croatia travel guide. Aria returns from her holiday in Hawaii in 2 days and I travel to Philadelphia on Sunday so this Saturday we will do a practice pack of our luggage to see how things will fit - what we might be missing etc.

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November 5th T-30 days. It seems we still have so much to do - the details for Italy,Croatia and France are still outstanding. I am starting to get very excited- a nervous. Have I thought of everything - my joins have really been hurting - I hope they get better on the trip. Trying to get all of the technology tools configured - email, IM, calendars, Google Earth, GPS, phones cameras, notebook. I purchased a Dell XPS 1330 and have been furiously configuring it - learning Vista - getting numerous accounts set up for the family and my various work activities.o far I am very happy with it. The configuration is here . So far I am very pleased. After meeting with another family that has undertaken a similar (albeit longer) venture, we decided to get GSM unlocked cell phones -more than one to allow us to separate and a digital camera for everyone. After shopping I actually decided to purchase 2 Nokia N73 Music editions which will act as mp3 players, cameras and cell phones. We decided