Revision to our itinerary - hint: it is overwhelming us

I crunched the numbers on our cruise spreadsheet.  It came out that the refund we will get is not so huge as imagined.  The lost beginning itinerary we miss out on is the caribbean, S. America, Africa and India.  But what we really miss is Africa and India.  We are happy that we replaced that with the two OAT tours.

But we decided NOT to go on the caribbean cruise, and we decided NOT to continue around the world in July, but to come home as planned and reserve the July to October section for 2016.

We have been reading the itinerary for the OAT Africa and India tours and are impressed.  The airfares are now the challenge and we are finding routes not as bad as we thought, but to upgrade to business class is the price of like 5 more tickets!

I cleaned off my desk and organized a notebook with the new itinerary in it.  This was while they cleaned the carpets.  David is now cleaning our pineapple!  We grew one on our front walkway and it became ripe just before we leave.

The next project for me is to pack for the OAT trips.  Only one carry on and one duffel.  44 pounds total. for each of us.

Thank God for my family in Florida.  We will be able to spend the month before we leave for Johannesburg with relatives, relaxing, going to theme parks, and playing bridge.

44 pounds probably doesn't include a computer so I am writing this on my iPad to see if I can post just as easily this way.