Theoretically today should be spent packing but so far no packing has really been done yet. I have though, gone to a Pak n' Save and while paying for my Kleenex and dried fruit (I like to snack a lot so I want to stock up on a few for India), I excitedly realized that I have 3 different kinds of currency in my wallet. Well, actually 4, since I always keep a Canadian $5 bill in my wallet, but it's been there for about a year so to me it doesn't really count. Anyway, it's small things like that that I've always dreamt of experiencing overseas. Looking back on past journal entries, I'd write about how badly I wanted to go overseas and do this and that. A couple days ago I tried to savor walking down Queen Street in downtown Auckland because it was exciting and surreal that I was finally there. Auckland didn't dazzle me as much as San Francisco does, but knowing that I'd written in my journals just months ago about going to other places made me excited to be there.
It's near the end of fall over here but today I'm wearing shorts in the house because all my pants are filthy and in the laundry right now. My brown pants are all sandy from the sand dunes, my jeans are dirty and slight muddy from hiking and all that other stuff and my the hem of my pajama pants are kind of dirty because they drag on the ground. Hopefully my jeans will be done before we go out to dinner; it's getting a bit cool now...
Swathi's already started packing so I feel like I should get started, too. I haven't bought as much as I thought I would so at least I shouldn't have to worry too much about space as I usually do. A lot of the new items are flat, so that's no problem. I will though, have to make room for 3 penguin waffle irons. Oh yeah, I should've mentioned that I did indeed secure 4 Woodles penguin waffle irons today. I've been in contact with someone from a New Zealand shopping site so I'll be able to pick up 4 on my way to the airport in Auckland. I don't know how big the packaging is and I hope I can pack them securely enough so they won't be damaged in transit. I might try to ship them home from India when I get there.
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