We are packed and ready – off tomorrow evening. Joe still claims not to know where we are going so hopefully still a surprise. Of course he’s pacing about driving me crazy. So it goes.<\/p>\n
We managed to fit everything into our bags. With minimal sitting on the bag to close it! So clothes for the trip, including warm weather things, and all our dive kit including dry suits.<\/p>\n
Will post when we arrive (if we can)! We now have a flickr account for photos so hopefully can just post links to photos. I’ll put the tag ‘joekath trip’ on each of our trip photos – hopefully this will make them easy to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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