because we have a date!
and even more excitingly,
we've booked a flight!!!
Although life has thrown us some of it's curve balls of late, we have finally made some progress and committed to leaving the UK on Tuesday 6th September for a short holiday with friends in California, before boarding a Greyhound bus to take us over the border and up to Vancouver a few weeks later.
You may remember me mentioning on a previous post how happy I was to find Icelandair - and how useful ( and realistic!) I thought their baggage allowance was. This was a major factor for us as we will need to take summer/winter/ski and work wear with us in addition to our snowboards, for a reasonable price and as we wanted to fly to the US first, it really was hard to find an airline that would encompass all of this without breaking the bank. So after much debate, we decided a 2 hour layover in Reykjavik more than made up for all the money we would save trying to ship our stuff over or paying the extortionate excess baggage fees. On top of this everyone I have spoken to from the company in various departments have been so helpful and friendly - I would definitely recommend them to my friends!
So what's next? Well as you can see from our list - a lot!
The pink lines are things that are done, and that's not many. Especially when extra items are getting added on a daily basis.
Most tasks are quite simple and wont take very long: ie: 'phone bank to tell them I will be overseas', however, these are followed on the irritate-o-meter by the median jobs such as 'fill out tax forms' , which are followed in turn by the jobs we really really don't want to do, like 'empty the garage' or the dreaded 'sort through the tupperware'
Unfortunately, it all has to be completed in some sort of order - with a lot being left until the last minute as we gradually palm things off to unsuspecting family members (my nan received 2 lovely Gothic black candelabras when she last visited, accompanied by the ever present warning of"careful - I might want that back in 12 months!") or as we sell what we can on eBay.
So, 9 weeks to go. Where are we at? Well, we have...
- informed the landlady of our intention to leave
- sold most of our furniture to the new tenant
- booked our flight and started looking at things we want to do in California
- sold ~ £300 worth of clothes and DVD's on eBay on our first attempt
- started moving non everyday items to the other half's mother's loft
- errrrrr....read books on Canada?!
I cant tell if I'm excited or terrified!
Aimée L’amour x
