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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
So we're at the stage of planning everything. We know the basic route we want to go on, first Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands for a while as mark is heading out to work there for a bit then we can head to South America to travel around until the money runs out. Now we need to get all the details sorted but its difficult to know how much to plan because you don't want to be stuck ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... eyebrows which took up three quarters of her forehead informed me I was in the wrong seat! Which was a shame because I seemed surrounded by decent, chatty folks especially the bloke JIm sitting nesxt to me. Fortunately, the lady whose seat it was kindly offered it to me which I was immensely relieved about when I spied a particularly leery looking gent next to her looking disappointedly in my direction!
It transpired Jim was from Prestwick and ...
Exploring Glasgow
... at that.
I took a few photos then told Matt we better go because the sky was looking very cloudy. But sure enough, it started to rain before we could get anywhere so we had to quickly duck under some cover. We put the rain cover on the stroller and I got the umbrella out. Emma had water on her face but she seemed to think it was pretty funny.
Once that was done, we continued back through the streets to the main shopping area and began to walk back ...
Moving on ...
... And there's the other big difference about this "tour group!" We all came along with a common desire to connect to something, or broaden something we already had ... including unique skill sets.
Like when we were in Strasbourg, comparing converted medieval cathedrals (from Catholic to Reformed) with churches built for the new movement. The Reformers, for example, moved the pulpit into the midst of ...