Thursday, May 30, 2019

May 30 – “Tick tock …”


As June approaches the tension can be cut with a … well, maybe a butter knife.  It’s not that thick.  Yet.  Chris is poring over her last minute detail list for our Alaska trip.  There are just a few things left that we need to arrange for.  Yesterday she located on Amazon a pouch to hold our passports and ID and credit card and the like.  Apparently inside the pouch they are mysteriously protected from illicit copying by shady scammers who are walking around cruise terminals with technological wonders, stealing people’s identities and credit card numbers.  She wants hers strapped to her wrist.  I prefer the kind that either hangs around my neck or straps around my waist like a fanny pack, hidden from prying eyes.  Although … I can sport a fanny pack.  Especially one with an image of Mickey Mouse on it.  Did it for many years at youth camp. 

Once we order these pouches we can move on to those wonderful mega-pouches called suitcases.  Size doesn’t matter for the ones we check on the plane.  It’s the carry-on pieces that are apparently strictly regulated by the airline.  And we have to have a week’s worth of clothing in them.  Suitcases are generally sold in sets of three different sizes.  We have to find a set that has the proper approved dimensions, then get a second carry-on size.  And they all have to match up to Chris’ rigid preliminary investigation.  No simple feat, believe me. 

We do still have one more meeting with the travel agent before the trip.  That’s where I’m fully expecting to hear of some other item that we just have to have.  Oh, well.

Tick tock, Chris.  Tick tock.

John 14:1 says, “Do not let your hearts be troubled.  You believe in God; believe also in me.”

Father, we are getting excited about the trip.  Help us to stay healthy and get everything done.  Amen.

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