OK so now all the hotels are booked. I took the weekend to completely ignore hotels. Now I am on the fun quest to find how to get from airports to hotel, train stations to hotels, boats to hotels. You would think this would be simple but for some reason the directions on the hotel web sites are a little vague. On trip advisor people just say use a cab.

I am not that much of a princess.

We are not afraid of public transit!

We will figure it out. We did it last year without having that much in advance and this time our arrival times seem to be more reasonable. Less arriving in the middle of the night when very little is open and we don't have a map or know how to use the metro yet. I am confident in our abilities. (What I am not mentioning is that Ryan probably did all this last year and had it in his head. I am having a new admiration for all the work he did last year, I had no clue!)

8 days to go. We have started the packing process and the search for liquid supplies that are in less than 90ml bottles. Pretty good so far just a few things left. We feel a little more seasoned in the travel department because we realized that we are going to have less clothes and we are gone for a week longer. The cameras are smaller as well.

Oh yeah. Ryan made it home OK. Walmart was open and his battery was in stock. After purchasing a few tools and a little time in the parking lot he made it to his hotel fine. Good thing he is a little bit handy.