Steps for planning a trip

I'm hoping to take a trip to New Zealand in 2013, so I've been taking some steps:

1.  Start saving money.
I put all my extra change in my handy dandy New Zealand bank! 
(Thanks Macs!)

2.  Get some travel guides
I probably won't need them because I have my own personal guides!
(That would be the Macs!)

3.  Get a Valid U.S. Passport!
It arrived today
(Thanks City of Issaquah & the U.S. Government)

I still need a lot more money in my bank, but I'm hoping 2013 is the year I fly to the other side of the world!