So far we are still on deck for our vacation. We did home covid tests yesterday just for reassurance (both negative), and had our ”official” lab tests this morning to enable us to get on a cruise ship by the end of the week.
This is my retirement trip, delayed from last summer due to covid. If anything screws this up, I may need to be put into restraints. We do have trip insurance, so if those covid tests surprise us, we’re covered. BUT. I’d be really pissed off. We’ve been REALLY careful about exposure in the past few weeks.
So, where are we going? We decided on a Scandinavian/Baltic cruise. We fell in love with Viking cruises when we did one just before the pandemic shutdown, and signed up for this before that cruise was over. We fly into London, spend a couple of days there, then the cruise goes to Scotland for a few stops. The majority of the trip is along the northern Norwegian coast, going up to the Arctic Circle before heading back, then to Denmark, one stop with a bus trip to Berlin, a stop in Gdansk, Poland, ending up in Sweden. We disembark in Stockholm. We’re making a short stop in Iceland on the flight back. We’ll be gone close to five weeks. The ship was supposed to dock in St. Petersburg, but obviously that’s not happening.
I have everything staged to pack. Not surprisingly, I’ve agonized more over the knitting/spinning projects than anything else. I do believe that there may be a few yarn-acquisition opportunities on the cruise (Shetland islands, all of Norway!). So I’m trying to not overpack and leave a little room for souvenir yarn.
After some dithering, here are the spinning projects I’m taking:

Fingers crossed for those Covid tests!
*And yes, the house, the cats, and the yarn stash will be carefully guarded while we’re away-we have a house sitter!