Day 0

We prepared for weeks and were all packed and ready to go 2 days before the trip. The night before the trip we attended Aden's Lifetime Honours award at his school and still made it home in time to get to bed extra early to be fully refreshed for the big day.

Just kidding. The kids didn't finish packing, and I never got around to weighing their bags, only Tammy's and mine. But what could go wrong right? We didn't get to bed till early morning.

Given the lack of time, we ended tossing in the kids Costco industrial sized moisturizers and accessories in into the luggage, not having time to transfer it to smaller containers.

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Thankfully my boy was able to hook me up with a melatonin so I was able to get a couple of hours of sleep.

Whenever I think about the difference between thinking about a plan, and getting people organized to execute it, this Monty Python sketch always comes to mind: