Still Planning

Things we've been doing:
1. We are mostly done with mapping things we want to see in HK and India. We've been talking to a couch surfing host in HK about meeting up and going to a couch surfers gathering. Looking for a host for the first night when it's just me and Aarti. That'd be ideal, but I guess if we don't hear back in the next day or two we should just book one of the Chungking Mansion places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions
2. Finally have all our train tickets for India. Aarti's mom's friend's son did it for us. Turns out it's way easier from India with a non-international credit card.
3. We now have hostels booked for two cities in India: Agra and Jaipur. Looking at Mount Abu now, but most of those places aren't on the usual hostel booking internet sites, so it's a little difficult.
4. Trying to pick up malaria medicine. Never knew it could be so hard..

Step 1: Go to the pharmacy the day it should be ready. Try to pay. Price is way higher than it should be.
Step 2: "Shouldn't I be paying just a copay?" "Oh, sorry, we don't have an account set up for you, can I see your insurance card?" I show him the card and he says it's not the right one. I need some sort of "pharmacy card".
Step 3: Call my parents and ask about this supposed "pharmacy card." They tell me such a thing doesn't exist.
Step 4: Call insurance. Because I now live on the west coast, things close earlier at 5pm EST. Nobody to talk to.
Step 5: Talk to different pharmacist. He hooks me up with the right price. I buy the medicine!
Step 6: While waiting for my new medicine consultation, I realize that they only gave me 30 malaria pills. Because you need to take one pill before you go into the malaria area and 28 pills after you leave it, this is only enough for one day. I ask about this. He says I need to come pick up my refill later on once I finish that bottle. I explain that this might be difficult since I'll be in India.
Step 7: Helpful pharmacist man calls insurance and says I need the medicine sooner. Tells me to come back the next day for the rest of the pills (~16 more).
Step 8: I return the next day. First pharmacist tells me pills won't be ready til March 31st, when I'll already be in India. I feel like there is a serious miscommunication going on between me-pharmacists-insurance people.
Step 9: Pharmacist calls insurance and again explains that I leave on the 20th for Asia and cannot come to Palo Alto then to pick up some pills. They say they can let me pick them up on March 16 (random?).
Step 10: I will go pick them up on March 16th and hope for the best.

Super fun!