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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Five days</span> to go until the wedding, and I&#8217;m still not even packed yet for the honeymoon. Hmm, might want to get going on that. Will have to make a note. Or, um, just look at this blog post again later. And I&#8217;m not even talking about packing clothes&#8230;just trying to narrow down what Nintendo DS games I can fit&#8211;and should fit&#8211;in my travel bag.</p>
<p>First, let me stop you and your finger-waggin&#8217; assuming. Yes, this is Tara and I&#8217;s honeymoon, and yes, we&#8217;ll be doing lots of honeymoon-like things. Wink, wink. As well as going all over the place in Disney World and the Wizardy World of Harry Potter, dining fine and laughing and loving it up. I promise you, we will. But remember, there&#8217;s the airport waiting and flight itself to contend with, and if there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;m really not a huge fan of&#8230;it&#8217;s flying. Anxiety and giant hunks of metal and wires magically floating in the air do not mix well. So I will need some distraction like woah, and thus enters my Nintendo DS. My travel bag can hold around 12 game catridges (I&#8217;m actually a little fuzzy on that; it might even be more), as well as another cartridge in the DS game slot.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the ones that fall under <strong>must definitely bring</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars</strong></li>
<li><strong>Chrono Trigger DS</strong></li>
<li><strong>Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mario Kart DS</strong></li>
<li><strong>Picross 3D</strong></li>
<li><strong>Scribblenauts</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>DQIX</strong> will be perfect for killing time, as there are a bunch of sidequests and grinding to do. I also picked up <strong>Chrono Trigger DS </strong>last week and am enjoying that a lot too (more on that game later). <strong>Scribblenauts</strong>, while not perfect, is fun just to fool around with, and I think the others listed are self-explanatory.</p>
<p>And then here&#8217;s some filler:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars</strong></li>
<li><strong>MySims Agents</strong></li>
<li><strong>Pokemon HeartGold</strong></li>
</ul>
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<p>I think Tara is just bringing one game with her, and that&#8217;s <strong>Animal Crossing: Wild World</strong>. I have good memories of that game helping to soothe my sanity during a much longer flight from New Jersey to Arizona when I went to see my sister, meaning she&#8217;ll be just fine.</p>
<p>Either way, still lots to get done this week. Please pray for me.</p>
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