Panic Mode!

OMG OMG OMG we are only 17 days away from our trip to Europe!! Clare and I are super pumped, can't wait, and have been doing a lot to get ready!!!! She and I have 3+ weeks of travel, then I have another 2.5wks with my dear friend AJ who is currently in Denmark. Flights and hostels/hotels are all booked. I bought my travel pack/backpack yesterday. I am in serious panic mode--not sure if it is necessary, but it is keeping me on my toes! :)

So wikitravel.org is my best friend for this trip... we did a lot of a research with this site to check out various cities, potential places to see and stay, best ways in and out as far as transportation goes. Once we picked cities, we researched hostels using a number of sites, looking over their reviews and location in the city, etc. Booking all of this can be scary and intimidating becuase it is NOT like booking a hotel or trip within the United States. Sometimes you really don't know what you're getting until you set foot in the place. But hey, that's half the fun!!! And that's also why we have a back-up place already picked in case the first pick ends up being awful for some reason.

So in the next two weeks, I have to move out of my apt/move everything home and do the exit process with them, sell some more furniture and get it to people, pay all my bills (haha), PACK, line up anything to be taken care of while I am gone... and then live my daily life, consisting of working 40hrs a week up until the day before I fly out, doing the exit process with them since I am resigning, jewelry shows and making sure my business, customers, and team are taken care of while I am gone, having fun with friends and co-workers since I won't see them for a while, and watching the season finales of Biggest Loser and Top Model (lovingly renamed the fatties and the whores, respectively)... OY VE! I am insane! I like that TV makes the list, haha, oh geez.

WHEW!! Yea, panic mode has commenced! SO EXCITED!

Oh, quick rough itinerary:
29-May: Leave
30-May: Malaga, Spain
5-June: Marseille, France
9-June: Venice, Italy
14-June: Crete, Greece
19-June: Copenhagen (Clare goes home 20-June), do some travel around Denmark?
1-July: Split, Croatia
9-July: Home