Vacation Plans
Well, we didn’t end up going down to Norfolk / Virginia Beach for Independence Day like we wanted to.
When we traveled to Florida, we had to buy 3 plane tickets: 1 each for Christine, Esther, and me. We carried Katya on our laps. She was pretty squirmy and pretty determined to explore the plane. We didn’t let her, but holding her was a bit like holding self aware jello.
We knew we’d need to buy 4 tickets for fly down to Virginia. (We considered driving but 17 hours is really pushing things with 2 toddlers.) We checked and saw that ticket prices were around $300 and realized it would cost us $1200 just to get to Virginia, on top of whatever we decided to spend while we were there. Philip is getting married in January, so if we went in the summer we’d be flying twice in 6 months.
So, we canceled the summer trip to the beach in favor of a winter trip to somewhere warmer than Madison. That also let me use my vacation time around Christmas / New Year’s / wedding.
I got to calculating and decided what I’d take:
- Friday, November 27, so I can have a 4 day weekend around Thanksgiving.
- Thursday, December 24 through Sunday, January 10. That will give me time to spend with my parents while they’re in country and in Oregon (WI) for Christmas. That will also let us all travel to Norfolk together (I’m sticking Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt Hallie with the girls so I can enjoy the trip) and have time to catch us with old friends.
I still have another 2.5 vacation days that I need to take before the year is out. Anyone want to come visit us?