$$ Goal - sooo close now!

First of all, here's a pic of Mark and Arlo that a photographer took:



:)

We did a little survey of our finances the other day, and we are only a teensy smidgeon away from having 100% of our "buying land and living in NS" funds! We're so close - we're practically there now. Yay!! In fact, if we hadn't already bought our travel trailer, we'd have that base savings in the bank!

It's basically academic at this point though. Once we have those funds intact it'll be a nice feeling, but after that we still need to save up enough for our trip, and enough to live off of while we're still in Victoria. We're leaving in February 2008, which is now only 10 months away!

Speaking of travel trailers, we're still bouncing between two very good name ideas. One is "Southbound Pachyderm", which I thought up and is the name of a song we like, and the other is "Good Hope" which is less funny but much more noble and my dad suggested. Which do you like? Leave a comment and tell me. Southbound Pachyderm will become a misnomer once we leave Mexico, since it'll be southbound no more. Am I allowed to name it that just for this trip, and then do a name change? Is that allowed? Is it lame?

Anyway I have four more weeks of working at the accounting firm and then I'm free! I'm more than ready for it too. Still no word on when Mark will leave his job. He's asked for time off for our Yukon trip, so at least work won't interfere with that stuff. We have our dates for that trip: we'll be going from August 25th 'til September 16th. Mom, Dad, if you're reading this, you guys can't come visit us then, K?