One week to go until our flight departs from the cold grey UK winter, to arrive in the arid heat of the United Arab Emirates. This means it is all systems go in Chez Goodacre; packing has commenced.

The first thing we’ve packed are the girls backpacks. These are the bags that the girls will carry, and use for hand luggage and day to day. They will not carry their own clothes and toiletries, these bags are purely to be filled with their most prized possessions and all the fun stuff.

The girls backpacks are from Joules, they chose this style themselves in the summer 2018 sale, so unfortunately these ones are no longer available, you can find similar here.

Inside the bags will be:

• Amazon Kindle Tablet
• Travel Journals
• Notebook & Art Sketchbook
• Watercolour Pallette
• Pencil Case (containing drawing & writing equipment)
• Camelbak Water Bottle
• Favourite Cuddly Toys
• Fingerlings
• Lottie Dolls (they adore these and play so much with them)

And the Drawstring Bags we made. They will hold their favourite toys (Playmobil, Zelfs and Schleich animals) and travel games.

You’ll also notice they collect keyrings of all shapes and sizes, they rattle as the walk along so at least we’ll hear them as they wander around.