Frustrated Packing & How I Have Become My Wife

Heading off to ATL tomorrow.  Then to Honduras on Thursday.

And naturally, I started packing today.  2 bags.  80 lbs.  Thought it would be a cake.  And here's what we've got:

Clothes:  (Have no idea if this is enough or too much.  Will be interesting to see.)

5 button up long sleeve shirts

10 pairs of socks

13 pairs of underwear

2 pairs of shorts

7 white undershirts

1 sports coat, tie, and relatively nice pair of black pants  (None of which match, but what can you do.)

1 pair of pajama pants

3 pairs of jeans

3 pair of light khakis

1 pillow

1 towel & wash cloth

3 long sleeve shirts

2 pair of basketball shorts

1 swimsuit

4 polos of diverse color and fabric

3 shortsleeved button ups

1 sweater type thing

Shoes:  (All of necessity)

1 pair of tevas

1 pair of hiking boots

1 pair of boots

1 pair of tennis shoes

Things & Non-necessities:  (The things that I think we might need.  Will be REALLY interesting to see how useful these things are.)

Duck Tape

Leatherman 

Cooking knife

Super glue

Bottle/Wine opene

Headlamp

Adapter/Power Surge

Extra wallet

2 belts

Alarm clock

Day planner

Battery recharger

Calculator

Dominoes

2 decks of cards

Accumulated travel sized items (compass, tape measure, screwdrivers, etc.)

Pill thingy

Crap load of rechargable batteries

2 large bottles of contact solution

Germ away stuff

Toothpaste

Pills, pills, and more pills (3x month supply)

Extra mouse

Puzzle of the US

Chalk

2 games of Uno and some bubble stuff

A nice metal bottle

Shampoo, soap, cologne, extra contacts

40 ft. of rope

Shaving kit and extra deodorant

Cable ties!!!!

Frisbee

Maglight

Dopp kit

Notebook and Folder

And that's it.  Everything someone needs for two and a half years in a foreign country.  Or at least, what I imaging they'd need.  But this is really a cut down list - my first packing attempt was a disaster. 

The whole exercise has been an extremely frustrating experience.

Now whether this all weighs 80 lbs...we'll see.  Tried weighing in on a scale and we look like we're ok, but looks can be deceiving.  Plus, Lauren's got all her bags and stuff.  Fun, fun times.

And on that note, I understand her that much better.  For the last two weeks she's been stressing about this.  I get it now.  Packing for a really, really long trip - while not knowing what you'll need or where you'll be leaving - is a complete, unadulterated bitch - 'scuse the language.  So my apologies to Lauren for all the mocking - I understand now. 

I understand.

And, so that's where we're at.  

2 days till we're in country.

Might be a bit till we can post more, but we'll get to it as soon as we can.  

If you can think of something that I'm missing, you've got about 25 hours to let me know!

-Jacob