Tomorrow’s the big day, the start of our holiday. Today is therefore, as you might imagine, the day of the final preparations:
Printing out hotel and travel bookings.
Having all recently arrived CDs ripped and on my personal audio player.
Making sure there are enough CDs in the car; and that they’re the right ones.
Making sure enough children’s television programmes are on the hard drive of my laptop.
Charging the camera batteries, the personal audio player, etc. Also, gathering all of our chargers and plug adapters together.
Mounting the baby mirror in the car, so that the driver can see Lucas, even though he’s facing away.
I’ve already purchased new hiking shoes and had my hair cut, so I’m more or less ready. My office still needs a long overdue whirl to clear my desk and I have photos from yesterday’s play-school party in the Amsterdamse Bos to upload.
One way or another, I’m sure it will end up being a late night, even if I work all day to try to prevent it.