24 Hours to Take-Off!

Hey Folks!

Well it's the day before take off and I think I can safely say I'm absolutely canning it! I'm feeling a bit worse for wear as it is, after my leaving do at Leo's last night (v. good by the way I'd definitely recommend the food, but not the waiters' dodgy accents!) so I can't really process the proximity of the whole thing. It'll probably hit me tonight when I'm lying in bed thinking "Well this is the last comfortable night's sleep I'm gonna have for 3 whole months!" I even bought a calendar yesterday and then thought "What on earth do I really need this for?" Honestly.

Anyway, I'm going into Horwich for dinner with my Nanny today which will be nice, and the gals are coming round tonight for a farewell nosh and drink up (probably not a drink up in my case - urgh). Need to go down to Boots too and pick up my cow keyring and say cheerio to everyone. Wow this is weird. It's just that when I'm back a whole quarter of a year will have passed in Bolton. Woo.

That's all for now, our first flight (from Manchester - Heathrow) is at 2:30pm tomorrow, and we should arrive in Osaka, Japan about 12:25pm on Saturday (GMT), and in Sydney at midnight on Saturday (GMT), 10:50am Sunday local time. So I guess the next time I'll be posting will be from yonder Far East! Unless I can't wait and do an update at Heathrow, which is much more likely to be the case! And as soon as I get a chance in Sydney I'll let you know how it's all going!

Wish Me Luck!