Six days 'til we go! About the lists...

You'd think the TO DO list would be getting shorter, but alas it is growing at a rate disproportionate to the number of days left.

And there's a hefty list of things to do for the projects we'll be working on when we get back! Crickey. Thank goodness CSI is on TV at all times. It's a happy backdrop to my late night laptop-on-the-couch work sessions.

Dean is busy making masks and lengthy pharmaceutical product lists, plus researching what route we'll take in the rental car from Jo-burg to Lesotho. He was clever enough to get an international driver's license. That puts me on map duty. Ha ha ha! Good one.

I am sewing clown hats, finishing up a couple summer work proposals, writing and rewriting lists, having an aerial rig built for our Northern Manitoba camp in March, having a trapeze bar built for Lesotho, reconciling our trip budget and generally just writing lists.

I have two more Canadian Opera Co. performances and Dean arrives in Toronto Thursday night. We'll spend Friday packing and reviewing our splendid lists, and some of Saturday repacking and doubling checking said lists. We'll eat a great deal both nights in anticipation of mediocre airplane food and three-plus weeks of a protein deficient diet.

But we're SO excited and it'll be good fer da kidz!