Well you lucky bunch of blog reading legends – I’m about to head off on another GRAND ADVENTURE….well it would’ve been grand but husband insists on coming so I guess it will just be a MEDIOCRE ADVENTURE!!!  But hey I’m sure he will come in handy for wheeling suitcases on cobblestones and fetching me drinks so I guess he can come.  Grandma arrives tomorrow to supervise our golddiggers….I mean our gorgeous children, and we are pretty much ready to head off on Saturday!

(I’ll be drinking tequila shots while writing this tonight – because – I’m on holidays bitches!!! (by tequila shots I mean glasses of champagne obvs)

So what’s the plan you ask?  Welllll……basically it’s just a lazy 5 weeks, 7 countries, 16 cities, several planes and a shit-ton of trains – exploring lots of Europe.  Of course we thought hey, this isn’t amateur hour, we need to add an extra level of difficulty so we put our heads together and decided to do this trip in freezing temps, lots of rain and peak Christmas crowds.  A person of sound mind would not……!!!

After many months of planning and more hype than Bruce becoming Caitlin – we are on our way.  Of course as with anything we do there are always some glitches and funnies along the way so rather than keep these boring tales to myself I’m going to bore you guys with them.

It would be fair to say that with only 3 days to go until we leave all hell has broken loose and well – I am a gibbering, caffeine fuelled, makeup-less mess……!!!!

Husband’s Pre Holiday TO-DO-LIST….

1. Lie on couch watching Lisa pack
2. Fly to Italy

My Pre Holiday TO-DO-LIST….

I think it’s safe to say that hostages have been extracted from life threatening situations with less planning and organising than what is currently going on in my home….all so I can go away relatively guilt free.  Lists and colour coded spreadsheets have been created, detailing every single shitznit thing everyone needs to know.   Meals have been cooked and frozen, easter eggs purchased (and hidden from them and me lol) and reminder post-its attached to every wall.  No s**t…my TDL is 63 items deep — go back and reread husbands list my friends.  Yep!

Whenever I go on holiday, but most especially when I go overseas, I become one of those obnoxious douchebags who take photos of the meals we eat.  I always have – probably even before it became super popular. Please don’t judge me hehehe.  I do this for the same reason I take photos of all of our hotel rooms and places we see and things we do.  It’s all part of the journey we are on…..and since The Kelly’s love their food it was just a natural thing to capture that as well.  The photos of the food we ate, like all the other photos I take when away on holiday, make me smile and triggers the memory of the occasion, the city, the company we were with, how I was feeling etc….