Jo's Travel Checklist - Complete!

So here it is, one final blog, with Johanne's checklist complete and available for you all to see and enjoy!!

1) Perform Bedtime Bibitte Checks on a nightly basis - Check.
2) Put up with and attempt to assuage Steph's complete and total irrational fear of cockroaches. That is, when you see one, pretend you didn't so she doesn't flip out and scream like a girl. Try to convince her that there is no cockroach in the bathroom when she is certain she just saw one peeking out of the sink (gross, by the way) - Check.
3) Vow total secrecy as to all bathroom/bodily function stories... not that there is anything good to tell... - Check.
4) Throw yourself off a cliff with only the word of some guy you met ten minutes ago to reassure you that it is, in fact, safe. - Check.
5) Somehow manage to get 100% less bug bites than Steph, even though she has been wearing the flippin bug cream every night while Johanne has not (it stinks, she says) - Check.
6) Take a quajillion photos and then proceed to veto the crap ones so that everyone at home thinks you are an excellent photographer - Check.
7) Stay away from monkeys - Check.
8) Tell the harrassing street vendors to f*** off while you are eating. Or tell them "Maybe later" when you both know that you really don't want that head scraf/ugly bracelet/doll necklace/braided pens and that the likelihood of you actually going to get one later is inexistant - Check.
9) Take stealthy photographs of things you think are funny, but would otherwise be rude to photograph. That is, creepy paintings in restaurants that look like tete-a-claques-mayans but that the owner is really proud of, the kid who was trying to pull Steph's boob out into the open while waiting for a bus (he was 5... bit old to breast feed, no?), strange hairdos (including, but not limited to, single rat-tail dreads, multiple mullets, and bizarre colours), etc. - Check.
10) Survive interminable bus routes in buses which are likely to break down at any given moment and which smell like dung. Also, drivers who get out at the gas station, stand on the tire and bounce up and down for about ten minutes while the tourists inside the bus make jokes about him jacking off - Check.
11) Create makeshift refrigerators out of a garbage can and some ice packs for your beer night - Check.
12) Spend your final nights in a super-swank hotel room paid for by the Ladner parentals (or, in this case, yourself... which kind of sucks...) - Check (double check, for swankness factor)

There are, undoubtedly, many more things that Johanne will now be able to add to her completed travel checklist, but we're out of ideas (maybe taking cold showers and liking it?) so that's all you're getting for now.

Hasta Mañana!!

Steph and Jo