I have just had the pleasure of a three day long weekend.  I spent all of it trying to make some sense out of all travel documents for this trip.  There are e-tickets, plane tickets, customs forms, brochures, menus, timetables, accomodation bookings and so on.

Once sorted into piles of relevance they still filled my whole dining room table.  By 5pm on Sunday night they were all sorted into a folder and detailed run sheets were done for each day so that I knew what I had to be doing - meeting places, confirming tours, keeping track of reservations.

So this busy trip related weekend follows the last one where we had our awesome 4th July party to launch our 2016 trip!  The food was amazing and mostly done by Kellie, Annette and Veronica whilst I oversaw it all and tasted each item to make sure they were good enough for my guests.

We started off with Patriotic Pretzels:

Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches, home made lemonade and artichoke dip!  Main meals were fried chicken, mac and cheese, hot dogs, potato salad and corn on the cob.

Kellie's son Jack manned the bbq - he was the only male in attendance - but thats ok because he is a Chef!

Dessert was the best though- pumpkin pies, patriotic cup cakes, revolutionary berries and pecan pie!

and finally:

Till next time.....

Sandie