gettin ready
Well, we have been picking out our best interchangeable layered outfits and testing the warmth of our best coats. We are trying really hard to select just two pairs of shoes each. Our new luggage has been getting filled and emptied with packing trials. Our new travel kits are filled with fresh razors, vitamins, and full mini-bottles of shampoo and laundry detergent (for those in-room washings).
We received our new passports a few weeks ago with almost no problems. The only issue being the quality of the photos. We, being the picky visual people we are, decided to take our own portraits for our I.D.s. I set up a little studio in the bedroom and we each pressed our backs against the only art-free white wall in the house so I could snap some regulation pictures with our digital camera. I then spent about an hour or so tweaking the colors and contrast in Photoshop until they looked just right. The next day we turned in our applications and sent off the checks. Six weeks later we got the new passports and were very disappointed to see that they no longer laminate the pics to the documents. Nowadays, they do some weird photo/paper-infusion process which result in a really washed-out and unflattering image. At least we can get new ones in 15 years.
I passed one other major hurdle to getting ready for the trip this week. I got my shots. That is to say that I got my 5th, and hopefully last, series of cotisone injections in my spine. This is done to reduce the amout of pain I have from a ruptured disc between my lumbar vertebrae. I am crossing my fingers that I can get about a month of relief. Then I get to start researching surgery... joy.
More progress later.
Gavin
We received our new passports a few weeks ago with almost no problems. The only issue being the quality of the photos. We, being the picky visual people we are, decided to take our own portraits for our I.D.s. I set up a little studio in the bedroom and we each pressed our backs against the only art-free white wall in the house so I could snap some regulation pictures with our digital camera. I then spent about an hour or so tweaking the colors and contrast in Photoshop until they looked just right. The next day we turned in our applications and sent off the checks. Six weeks later we got the new passports and were very disappointed to see that they no longer laminate the pics to the documents. Nowadays, they do some weird photo/paper-infusion process which result in a really washed-out and unflattering image. At least we can get new ones in 15 years.
I passed one other major hurdle to getting ready for the trip this week. I got my shots. That is to say that I got my 5th, and hopefully last, series of cotisone injections in my spine. This is done to reduce the amout of pain I have from a ruptured disc between my lumbar vertebrae. I am crossing my fingers that I can get about a month of relief. Then I get to start researching surgery... joy.
More progress later.
Gavin
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