Travelouge: Prep work

We're going to London in 26 days.

This trip was first thought of in May of 2009, due to a wedding gift from an at the time to-be-sister-in-law.

Enter September 2010--we hear about offer expiring.  We decide to go during my spring break of that academic year, come rain or shine or coersion to get time off for Dale at whatever new job he got!

December 2010--AIRLINE TICKETS ARE PURCHASED!  Dale and I barter for the window seat on the coolest parts of the trip.

February 2011--Travel Itinerary is finalized.  My now-is-currently-sister-in-law, Lana, has been living in the English countryside for going on 3 years now.  I didn't really know what one does on a trip to England, and she has had plenty of practice taking people around on visits.  She and Dale were pretty amazing travel agents on this whole thing.  I'll save the intense detailing for later, but let me just say, I'm pretty stoked for a trip to Cambridge, Westminster Abbey (which--believe it or not--is an actual functioning Abbey... with Nuns and stuff!), the Brittish Museum (Ooh! Mummies!), Windsor Castle, Chatsworth (that sweet house that Mr. Darcy lives in for the A&E Pride and Prejudice movie), Dover and the White Cliffs (where Sabine jumped off for her execution in the Disney 3 Musketeers Movie), and OH SO MUCH MORE!!!

I'm SO stoked.  Pictures to come in 41 days when I actually get back.  WOOHOO!

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London really does deserve it's own entry and justice, but I couldn't figure out how to separately post this idea.  I mean really, the decision over how to post under what title, which one first, and is "first" the one that appears on top, or the one that was actually given the earliest time stamp? ... it was all just becoming too much!

Story:

Dale and I did our taxes this year and it was the first year we'd processed where either one of us had earned over $10,000.  2010 was good for us!  When we saw what our tax return would be, I stepped back a little.  We don't have any immediate needs.  Savings is important, but we're contributing to it already... "Honey, if we were just going to blow this money, what would we spend it on?"  About two hours later, Dale came back with ideas for a -- wait for it --

TRIP TO EASTERN EUROPE!!

(Including Prague, Vienna, and Budapest)

Coming to blog spaces near you in September of 2012...