At last! Now for the flight marathon. 6.5 hours to Singapore, a 6 hour layover then 12.5 hours to Frankfurt ,a 2 hour layover then 8 hours to New York What we are putting ourselves through to fly Singapore Airlines on the new A380 and have exit row seats!! If no more blogs appear you will know we were too stuffed after this endurance test!

Well who would have thought our itinerary could get any better!! We had already tried to overlap our Caribbean itinerary with the Australian cricket teams West Indies tour in some way but it was too hard so gave that idea away Then they shift the 3rd test to Roseau in Dominica and day 2 is our day in port at Roseau on our Caribbean cruise and we did not plan any land excursions for that day. So tickets purchased and we will be spending the day at the cricket - ...

3 weeks to go now and last arrangements made - speciality dinners on the cruise, Jamaica accommodation paid up and dinner booking at Per Se in NewYork (last table on the Monday night is quite a coup as they only take bookings a month in advance and always book out in a day) Now to finalize the trip folder and start getting things ready for the cases etc Have managed to set up the iPad so we can access our documents overseas even without Internet access using Dr...

Less than 4 weeks to go now but who's counting. Starting to put the stuff out with the cases now and that is the sign we are nearly there. All organized except for a few final payments to make and flights to confirm (here's hoping there are no last minute flight changes to discover). So 4 weeks from now we will be landing in New York after a very long flight (Adelaide, Singapore, Frankfurt, New York). Sounds crazy I know but we so prefer Singapore Airlines and th...