D-Day!

Tomorrow is Departure Day!! We leave Aberdeen at 11:40 for Paris, and from there fly on to Johannesburg. Oh, the anticipation...

I've spent the last few nights in restless sleeping, with the trip looming nearer and nearer. It's one thing to plan a big trip like this, quite another thing to be faced with it so soon! I suppose it's all to do with chartering into the unknown - a new continent, a new type of travel, a new length of travel, a new Hemisphere (ok not quite, I've been to Australia but still). For all my gung-ho behaviour in life, I'm pretty much a creature who prefers familiarity. What's that? Africa? I might get eaten by lions! (Speaking of lions, interestingly enough, I always assumed that lions and tigers live side by side. Hey it's not my fault, in those picture books I read as a kid, the two were always mentioned in the same breath! No one told me they live on different continents. =)

So, what's in store for the next few days... We arrive in Johannesburg on the morning of the 7th of November, where we get picked up (yeah yeah so we're spoilt). Hopefully we'll get to see the Apartheid Museum and survive the day without being mugged. Then it's off to a 4 day safari trip!

Not sure when I'll get to another computer, so wish me luck till then... =)