Yay!
The lack o’ fetus this month means that we were able to start planning our vacation. Poor Dave.
We bought plane tickets this morning, and I’m trying to book car & hotel, but Orbitz won’t let me. I’m guessing it has something to do with using the credit card for the first time in almost a year to do it. I’ll have to try tomorrow.
But, anyway, we will be going to Ft. Myers, Florida during my April vacation. It seemed like the best combination of what we wanted and didn’t want in a vacation: sun, sand, sea and quiet, but light on the Spring Break atmosphere. Yay!
After buying tickets (we have TICKETS, people!) I met Amy in Augusta for mexican food. (Because nothing says Mexican like Central Maine. . . .) It was great, we waited forEVER for our food, but since the whole point of meeting up for dinner was to talk, it was great to not have to rush through dinner to make room for someone else. We’re trying to make it a priority that we see each other in some fashion once a month, and it’s SO GOOD to have an hour or two of unfettered talking in person. No kid distractions, no “I have a beep” or “My husband’s home, so now I have to talk in code about stupid conception stuff because it’s a girl thing” just “Oh my god, this sour cream tastes like band-aids!!!!”
After she headed home, I went to B&N and picked up a travel guide for our trip, and a book called Weird U.S., which is AMAZING. I knew Dave would love it, and I loved it, so I totally felt that it was a justifiable purchase. It’s a great combo of haunted places, abandoned places, roadside attractions, and other general weird stuff.
In looking at place and trying to book our rooms, Dave is sort of freaking out about the cost. Having never really traveled, he has no real firm idea of what it costs. And, that we could get tickets from BGR to RSW, with only one connection (CVG, because BOS is NEVER a good idea as a connecting city), a rental car, and a beachfront room with a mini-kitchen (to save money by eating in for breakfast and lunch), for SIX NIGHTS, during April vacation, for about $1500 total, is a STEAL. He has a bit of a skewed perspective, as our wedding cost only slightly more than that, and we flew to AUS in July from MHT for 175 (thanks to a travel voucher my folks had, it being JULY, and leaving from an airport 4 hours away) and then stayed with family and were chauffered by my parents (and me, when my Dad finally accepted that living in PHOENIX for a year gave me the ability to city-drive) everywhere. That was cheap. The more romantic couple-only beachy vacation is going to be alittle more, but still. For two people, that’s fan-freakin’-tastic. Hell, I spent $1200 to get myself ONLY to MEL from BGR; thank god I didn’t suggest an international destination, as he would probably totally lose his mind.
And, since the credit card gave us a 0% rate, we can pay it off by christmas, interest free, instead of decimating our savings.
So, Ft Myers Beach & a rental car to see surrounding sights. YAAAAAAAYYY!!