4 days to go - excitement and panic levels very high! Australia underwater it seems so slightly concerned about that but apparently it will all be fine!!!! As long as we can get into Brisbane airport and back out again and up to Cairns we should be ok as hopefully all the floodwaters will have receded by the time we need to travel down there. Time will tell I guess. We not changing plans at the moment - holding fire for a couple of days.

Less than 3 weeks to go - got Xmas out of the way now need to be doing some serious last minute planning - hope we have thought of everything!!!!

Less than a month to go - suitcases bought - just trying to decide what goes in them !!!