Wow, that was fast, the Watkins came in

Just a quick update, we have the Invoice, a lovely letter of invitation to the Nobel Hospital, and I am waiting for my new passport so we can finally get our India Visa's. So I think we are pretty organized and we just have to wait for a bit. November 2nd is the date for our final shots. In regards to Malaria prevention I am seeing my physician on Friday next week to talk about options. I do not want to take an antibiotic if I don't have to! So we will see, ...

Today was extremely frustrating, we arrived at 9252-34 ave to get our India Visa's. We found out that we had filled out the wrong form, had the wrong size photo's (that had cost 40.00 from Walmart), and that my passport was too close to expiring to qualify. Apparently you need have 190 days + before expiry to go. The new form also demanded that we have a letter from our Canadian Doctor that they recommend the procedure, well that would never happen because the...

The flights are booked, we leave on November 19th. We couldn't leave on the 8th as planned because the physicians have a conference then. This way I will be home for my birthday instead of spending it in India. Final Itinerary should be showing up today. What does a flight to India cost you ask? 1530.00 ea plus 121.00 ea for insurance, not bad considering it takes over 24 hrs to get there. Can you say jet lag?

On Friday Jason and I drove into Spruce Grove where I transferred the funds for the procedure to Clinicard in Winnepeg. From there we went to Walmart where we had our photo's taken for the India Visa's. Our appointment for the Visa's is next Friday as we haven't received our letter of invite from the Nobel hospital yet. At 2:30 pm Jason and I had a consult with a health nurse in Onoway where she went over all the suggested vaccines and precautions she though...