Wow! What an amazing last full day in the UK for us! It started off with some last minute organising: printing confirmations, ringing credit card companies to tell them we are leaving the country TOMORROW for a year, sorting out hand luggage (and for Dave - catching up with Coronation Street that we'd missed on Monday night!). Then we went to our local The Stap for dinner one last time before heading up the A19 to Sunderland to see Take That!! We drove up in...

That's right, just 3 little weeks. Weeks that would normally go by so quickly in everyday life, but for us it's dragging so much! 3 weeks today at this precise minute we will be at the Stadium of Sh**e waiting for Take That to take the stage (Take That being the only reason we are entering that place). The days leading up to it we will have had a leaving party and attended a wedding, leaving us not much time for packing and organising things - oh well! Then after...

It's been a while since the last update and our leaving date seems really close now - 45 days to go! We've still got lots of things to do and people to catch up with before we leave... We found out last week that our plans for Fiji might not happen exactly as we've planned - the Tribewanted project we were going to stay with has got into financial problems and they're unsure when or if they'll re-open this summer...a shame we only learnt this after Laura had boo...

Double figures! Yes we're into double figures now - only 95 days until departure and we're getting more excited every day! Each time we get another injection or buy another small piece of kit it seems more and more real. I got very excited after buying a few cheap vests in Primark a few weeks ago! Our first month in America is now fully planned, after we booked our Green Tortoise Adventure tour yesterday! We're booked up for the Canyons of the West Tour which i...

Travel jabs and America plans... Another step on the way to our first flight...we both had our lovely injections for some pretty nasty diseases tonight, and there's more still to come! We're now covered for hepatitis A, polio, tetanus, typhoid and diptheria - didn't really feel very much and arms are OK. On the other hand, Laura said hers really hurt and she can still still feel it - didn't get away with using it as an excuse not to go to Zumba though! Excuse me...