Living the Motto

We are down to 20 hours and counting before take-off. We currently still do not have a hotel reservation for our arrival in Bangkok and have many many things to do before departure...like I need to apply for a grad school loan yet today. Therefore, during this high stress time, I am going to employ our new motto " Mai pen rai" and tell myself to Not Worry. It will all work out.

Gabriel and I have been in Ohio for the last 5 days preparing for our trip and visiting my friends and family. Gabriel even got the chance to visit Van Wert, Ohio to meet my grandma and extended family. We've had a good time and he has been great with all of the new introductions.

We're still not quite sure about our itinerary. We have more guide books than we know what to do with (thanks mom!) so I'm sure we'll be prepared. Our latest development has been the exclusion of Cambodia from our trip. We're just not sure we'll have enough time so we're going to keep it for the end of the trip and only do it if there is time. We want to make sure we can spend some time down south on the beaches! Gabriel is now officially a SCUBA diver so hopefully we'll get a chance to take him on his first ocean dive!!!!!!!

That's it for now. Maybe more before we go. Make sure you check the blog while we're gone. I can't promise we'll have updates up in a timely manner but we'll do our best. So maybe don't make it your #1 priority to check it everyday but at least once a week would be nice:)