Shopping, mending, practicing and some serious time-wasting

Do I need a balaclava?  If I want to afford this trip I do!  Haha!  No, Amy and I are probably not going to rob a bank (although there's still time so never say never).  And no, we probably don't need this much protection from the cold.  But Costco has them on two for $10.  So... 

Give us all your penguins! 

I also bought a selfie-stick.  I know, I know.  I hate selfie-sticks and selfie-stick people and now I have one and I am one!  I am telling myself this is more of a height enhancer.  It involved more downloads and getting one thing to talk to another thing (stick to phone, I haven't gotten phone to computer yet, or maybe I have, I have completely lost track of what talks to what, and any thread of a thought process or sentence structure apparently, but I digress, yet again). 

Anyhoooooodle, here is me practicing taking selfies. And practicing uploading photos from my camera to this blog.  Just in case. 

Height enhancer! 

It has a wobbly tripod and remote! 

Time wasters: 

I decided I needed a very warm toque. So I knitted this up from Peruvian Alpaca wool.  

this is not going to match my free RED parka! 

My watch that I use for travel broke.  That thing has been to four continents with me, and it was supposed to go to a fifth.  But the plastic on the band gave out.  I wanted to just get a new band but a new band was practically the same price as a new watch.  So, goodbye my old watch, you have served me well, but you have been replaced with a shiny new watch.  

One thing that always annoyed me about my old watch was that the band was too long for my wrist so the watch face sat on the side of my wrist.  The end of the world?  Not completely.  But, hey I thought, looking at the broken band, I see how it can be shortened.  So, I Frankenstein-practiced on the old dead watch and it worked, I was able to shorten the one remaining side of the band. So, I spent a couple of hours shortening the new watch bands so the face sits properly on my wrist.  

Speaking of time wasters, you all just read that 
whole boring watch story! 

We just got an email from G Adventures letting us know, after careful consideration, they are going to require everyone on board to have a their full rounds of Covid vaccines, the last one within the last four months, but not less than two weeks before we start the cruise.  I'm all for that.  I am booked for my bi-variate fourth booster for next week.  But the question is, how do I get proof of that out of my government which G Adventures requires.  That is for another day.

Oh, there's a link in that email with pages of information to go through. 😐

I'm sure there is more that I've done but it's been a busy week so that's it for now.  

Less than three weeks to go.