Plotting and Planning
18 months of meticulous planning, and we took our first ever family holiday. Ever. When I say we are homebodies I am not kidding. My husband jokingly refers to outside as 'the big blue room'. Apart from a weekend getaway for our 10th wedding anniversary, we have rarely spent a night away from home. I wasn't always a homebody, prior to children and a husband I had travelled enough as a child and young adult that I thought I might have been happy not straying far from home again. I already had most of Australia, East (as high up as Cairns and as down low as the snow fields of Threadbo), West, (to Perth) and Central, (Alice Springs and Uluru) under my belt. Further abroad I could list Japan, Singapore, The East coast of America and a good chunk of Europe (Holland, UK, Italy and France) in my travels, all before 26. My husband had managed Sydney as the sum total of his travel experience. He never had any desire to go anywhere in particular but when I suggested Japan as...