Welcome to our STRESS…

The past two weeks have been the busiest and most stressful point of the entire year.

As you may have read on our last post, we made a couple of mistakes with our Sudan visas, but it all worked out and we could laugh about it. Well, we managed to make another mistake to our Ethiopian Visa’s. Thanks to Spiros and Maria though, we hopefully fixed it before too big of a problem happened. Here is what happened. We sent a $29 money order for a 1 month tourist visa. If we would have read our notices and the application properly, we would have seen that we should have applied for a 3 month multi entry visa. The reason being that the visa is valid from the date of issue, not the date of entry. So we phoned the embassy, and through a very confusing conversation where I wasn’t sure if they understood me or not, it seemed to be O.K. I was to send the difference in money that day and they would issue the proper visa. No worries right?

Well, it is now one week later and we still haven’t received our visa’s and our passports. All I can think about is how we can’t fly without our passports and if we don’t get them back in time…how are we going to go about applying for another one with only 2 weeks until we leave! It is freaking me out. Both Dave and I phoned them on Friday and they seemed to know who we were and that apparently our passports have been sent back. But when we check the tracking number, it is no where to be found. I read that Jamie received his and I am happy for him, but it just stressed me out more that we haven’t got ours yet. I really think that the Tour d’Afrique needs to fix this issue next year. To be without your passports 2 weeks before you leave for an enormous trip, is extremely stressful.

We are excited however to have a bunch of interviews lined up over the next couple of weeks. We will keep you posted on appearances and articles and other media as they come out. It is pretty exciting!!

We have a fund raising event on Thursday and we are overwhelmed with everyone’s generosity. Thank you Sandra Kasturi, Melissa Girotti, Roger Playter, Jacqueline Vong and Lisa Wisniewski for your amazing gifts to raffle off. It is going to be a great event.

If anyone is in the Hamilton area on December 20th, come on down to the Casbah and check out some great bands playing some awesome 70′s tunes.

I will keep you posted on the passport situation and once we receive them, we will both be very happy campers.