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It’s now the eve of our departure and we’re as excited as ever.

Megan’s family arrived Friday night shortly after we got home from work. We went down to St Veronus for dinner and played catch-up since the last time we were together. We spend yesterday downtown Toronto as the gals went to the Eatons Centre and Jim & I caught the afternoon Jays game which Braden had bought tickets for in anticipation of his trip to Ontario at the same time, but since his plans dissolved, we took advantage of.  They were excellent seats, it was a great game (Jays won), we got to see how the dome at the Rogers Centre closed, eat ball-park hotdogs and popcorn – what’s not to love?

Today is going to be pretty low-key, we’ll likely do some last minute errands to make sure we have everything (ie: travel adapters), and ensure we have all the parking arrangements sorted out while we’re at the GTAA.

Anyway, I better get back to packing…

That’s right. Megan and I are off to Greece! Eudora’s off to my parents as we embark this coming Monday for a two week jaunt around the Mediterranean. How exciting is that?! We’re making the trip with Megan’s parents who have been to Greece on multiple occasions before. Jim (Megan’s dad) is over in Greece a few times a year on work related ventures. He’s the Dean of Arts and PhD at UNB in Fredericton – Classic Arts is his ‘thing’, and we can’t be more excited to have him as our tour guide!

We’ll be spending the Majority of our time in Athens with the last few days spent on a cruise that will take us to Turkey and around some of the Greek Isles.

I’ve ordered a new lens for my camera(s) and it should arrive tomorrow, so my arsenal is shaping up quite nicely:
- Canon EOS 30D & Canon Rebel XSi Bodies
- Canon EF 24-105mm F4L  IS (new addition for the trip!)
- Canon EF 50mm F1.8
- Canon EF 70-200mm F4L
- Canon Speedlight 430EX

I’m even debating ‘borrowing’ a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens from the shop for my UWA perspective. It’ll be a solid line up… I’ve got about 20GB in memory cards, so I should be good for over 2000 RAW images.

I fully intend on blogging this journey, will it be ‘live’ – that is still yet to be seen. I’d love to update Twitter along the way, blog cool stuff as I see it and keep in touch with folks while I’m away – but I can’t seem to find the “perfect solution”. I recently unlocked my Bell BlackBerry Tour 9630, so I can use a foreign SIM card while I’m overseas, however it’s quite difficult finding a service provider who will do data support. Phone/SMS isn’t an issue, but I’d like an alternative to the $50/MB roaming charge from Bell. I’ve looked into solutions such as Brightroam ($15/MB + $30 SIM) but I think I’ve ran out of time on that one.

Anyway… That’s what’s coming down the pipe, some quality updates in the next couple weeks.