The List Nazi

And that's just the beginning. From left to right: Tom's To Do list, Tom's Carry-on list, Krista's Carry-on list, and Krista's To Do list. I still have to put up our Clothing-to-Pack lists. Hehehe...guess who's the list Nazi?

Seriously, though, I'm worried about how many items on my list begin with buy. See:

• Find someone to take care of my guinea pig while I'm gone
  
• Buy journal
• Buy Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• Pay all possible bills
• Put together itinerary of where I want to go
• Buy a digital camera
• Buy a memory card
• Let landlord know we will be gone for 3 weeks
• Buy neck pillows for flight
• Cut Tom's hiar
• Learn some basic Spanish
• Buy brainteasers for flight
• Buy cleansing wipes and travel-sized toiletries (or cases...depending on how light we pack; I'm hoping to pack light enough to just take my regular toiletries)
• Lay out what clothes I'm bringing
• Get office, friends and relatives' addresses (for postcard sending)
• Sew Canadian flag onto my backpack
  
• Take my guinea pig to the piggysitters
• Find out about travel insurance (gulp!)
• Pay Tom's mom back for the plane ticket
• Buy hay and guinea pig pellets
• Get all dishes done
• Clean out fridge (yuck)
• Do laundry
• Convert birthday $ to Euro
  
• Buy a travel guidebook

And that doesn't include the food we have to get for the flight:

Krista's carry-on

• bottled water
• suckers and gum (for take offs and landings)
• clif bars
• sandwiches
• cd player
• cds
• Harry Potter
• batteries
• neck pillow
• Valarian (to help me sleep)
• mineral salts
• deck of cards
• crossword puzzles
• brain-teasers
• wallet
• chapstick
• passport
• note pad and pen
• journal
• cleansing towelettes
• cal-mag
• various feminine supplies

Add to that, we are giving the bride and groom-to-be $100 as a wedding gift.

And it sounds like Tom's parents still think that renting a car for the entire trip is the best idea.