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Heading off

We are leaving on a three week holiday and I am quite excited. As usual we are not making like easy for ourselves. We are starting with a long weekend in Warburton, for a trail  running festival. Leon is doing a 50km, and I'm running 14kms. Our friends Kris, Katie, Skip and Bee are coming to play, so it should be really fun.

Then Kris, Leon and I are flying to Adelaide for a week of Fringe shows. Kris will then fly home (with all off Leon and my nice clothes) and Leon and I are going hiking. Five days and four nights - the longest I have been out consecutively.  I'm pretty excited to be heading for the trails, hiking is one of those hobbies where there is never enough opportunities, and we haven't been out since the Little Desert in August last year (which is actually not that long ago). Then we have few days in Victor Harbour, which sounds like a relaxing place to be, before we walk to McLaren Vale and visit some wineries. I'll be knitting Leon's winter set  (as I often have at the Adelaide Fringe).  


But right now I'm in that frantic, stressed state, where we are cleaning the house, and handing things over to the cat-sitter and worrying that we packed the wrong things. And packing for a multi-facetted trip like this can be a bit tricky, but we've done it before, and we know how it goes. And as soon as I walk out the door, put my bags in the back of Kris' (brand new Lexus) car, I'll know that everything is as organised as it could be, and there is nothing else to do. 

See you in three weeks! 

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