19 Things to Do Before Australia:

1. Go to AAA and apply for International Drivers Permit (IDP).
2. Get passport photos for IDP.
3. Don't lose IDP.
4. Somehow obtain 6+ months of my birth control pills that somehow totals less than $100. To try: Walmart, Target, Costco...other big conglomerate pharmacies.
5. Activate basic travel insurance via Hostelling International (part of a gift received years ago for Christmas...thanks, Aunty M!)
6. Long underwear...buy it.
7. Obtain Dan Brown's Lost Symbol for the 14-hr plane ride. Note: Don't let anyone convince you that "it's just the same old plot set in DC--oh god, and just terrible writing." You love these fictional(???) conspiracy theories. Be true to yourself. And Dan Brown.
8. No need to clot: Practice leg exercises for plane ride.
9. Be at your hair appt, 1pm, Tuesday. Tell them you want an "Aussie Outback" look. Look insanely shocked and/or surprised when they look at you with clueless eyes.
   
10. Fix reading glasses for the 2349203498th time. Thank the nice people at Virginia Vision Associates for being so patient and wonderful.
11. Pack, you suppose. 
12. Rewatch: Rabbit-Proof Fence
    
13. See: Australia
    
14. Don't see: Wolf Creek
15. Pour through Let's Go, Australia! book Natalie gave you. 
16. Research crocodile death statistics.  
17. Exchange your US dolla dolla bills for their equivalent in AUD (exchange rate: 1 USD = 1.15 AUD) and make it rain.
18. Start calling all men "blokes" and all women "sheilas." 
19. Pick up your brother's bassoon from his high school band room (unrelated).