Priming for another Trip

We have decided to put off our trip to later in the Spring, hoping for more warmth.  We should have temperate to medium hot temperatures in the next 6 weeks. 

I have been waiting anxiously to see what troublesome, stressful thing will happen before this trip.  Somethings always goes wrong in the few days before liftoff.  One time it was a computer dieing the day before.  Another time one of our phones stopped working.  This time it was a fraud charge on the card we use for traveling.  It was a charge for a restaurant in Japan - One we were at March 2017.  The fraud specialist I spoke to for over 40 minutes this morning assured me that my card which is a different number than my husbands, would still work.  Wrong!  I tried it today when I had lunch with a friend and it was declined.  I was told that since it is the weekend they cannot make the card until next week.  And even if they overnighted it to me it would not get here in time.  Sigh.  Lots of phone calls to make to change automatic payments.

Everything else seems to be falling into place for a wonderful experience in some new areas of the world for us and one repeat to see family - Amsterdam.  More news coming soon.