I am as tall as a blue whale's heart!

We are still getting ready for our cruise next week!  Part of going on any trip is the pain of packing.  It is doubled for me, especially after a pretty disappointing summer in Scotland.  I have loads of nice summer clothes and usually can't get enough wear out of them in one season here.  So there are many more clothes I want to take and many I am going to have to leave here for another time.  I read a quote one time that said when packing for a trip - pack your clothes and get out your money then take away half the clothes and double the money!  I think more than half the clothes are going to have to go!

This is one definite going with me! And as soon as I see another of these little dresses, I will get it too. This one came from St Maarten.

One benefit of having two spare bedrooms is that Alan and I each have a room to put our suitcases and plan what we are bringing.  My packing room is Whitney's old room or our "nicer" guestroom.  Since the other room remains Martin's room at least until his internship year at ESPN is over, it is really the only guestroom! 

I have managed to totally trash this room setting out absolutely everything I want to take with me!  I am now at the point where I am clearing this room.  Last night, while clearing it, I found a Christmas present I either forgot to give Corbyn or that Whitney did not take with her when they moved out.  It is the cutest little(?) wall chart to record growth.  I loved it because it measures things in what you as tall as.  Corbyn is just about as tall as a 4 year old now (that was not taken from this chart!) so we have missed the time when he might have been as tall as an Oscar or maybe even a King Penguin.  I can't wait to see what he will be as tall as when we get him over on Sunday!  And this wall chart goes really high so I am curious what Alan will be as tall as!  But I am thrilled to be as tall as a Blue Whale's Heart!  I knew Blue Whale's are big, to say the least, but if I am as tall as their hearts, just how big is the body that can hold something that big!

 “Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”