Thanksgiving Plans Made Early
Normally I don't know what I am going to be doing for Thanksgiving until a week or two beforehand. This year is a bit different though.
Kate and I are going to London.
Yes, this is seemingly out of the blue. However, a few weeks ago dad announced that he was going there for Thanksgiving, and I tossed out that I would love to do that, but money and vacation and such probably wouldn't allow for it. Well, last week he gives me a call letting me know that if I was serious he found a good deal through Delta for $410 per person (plus roughly another $125 in taxes and fees) to fly to into London-Gatwick airport from Dulles with a stopover in New York's JFK Airport. Unfortunately by the time I looked in to the offer it had ended. However, the seed had been planted in my mind.
After some poking around I finally settled on a direct flight from Dulles to London-Heathrow for $255 per person via British Airways. Of course once you add in all their taxes and fees it ends up being just over $500 per person, but it's still cheaper than that Delta deal would have been. Not to mention the benefit of not having a stopover. We'll be leaving around 9:45 PM on Nov. 27 (Monday) and arriving the next day at 10:00 AM in London. We'll be staying through Nov. 26 (Sunday) when we'll be flying back around 5:00 PM and landing at 8:00 PM. Gotta love the crazy time changes when traveling over multiple timezones.
So now we just need to figure out what we are going to do for six days. We'll be joining dad for Thanksgiving dinner at a local restaurant, as well as going to a performance of Phantom of the Opera. I also want to make sure we hit the British Museum, and I think we'll take a day trip out to Stonehenge as well. Everything else is up in the air at the moment.
In other news, Kate and I will be going with Kevin and Lynn to the Maryland Renaissance Festival this weekend. Should be fun.
After last weeks disastrous night of league bowling I put together a much better score this week. I went 142 for the first game, 158 for the second, and then dropped to a measly 102 for the final game. I guess I was getting tired, but it seemed like everyone else was slowing down too. While I'm very pleased with my performance (especially the 158 which is now my highest score ever) it's going to really mess up my average in the short term. I was being given a 120 pin handicap, and that's probably going to drop to 99 pins. I better hope I can keep up the high scores for next week's game.
- T
Kate and I are going to London.
Yes, this is seemingly out of the blue. However, a few weeks ago dad announced that he was going there for Thanksgiving, and I tossed out that I would love to do that, but money and vacation and such probably wouldn't allow for it. Well, last week he gives me a call letting me know that if I was serious he found a good deal through Delta for $410 per person (plus roughly another $125 in taxes and fees) to fly to into London-Gatwick airport from Dulles with a stopover in New York's JFK Airport. Unfortunately by the time I looked in to the offer it had ended. However, the seed had been planted in my mind.
After some poking around I finally settled on a direct flight from Dulles to London-Heathrow for $255 per person via British Airways. Of course once you add in all their taxes and fees it ends up being just over $500 per person, but it's still cheaper than that Delta deal would have been. Not to mention the benefit of not having a stopover. We'll be leaving around 9:45 PM on Nov. 27 (Monday) and arriving the next day at 10:00 AM in London. We'll be staying through Nov. 26 (Sunday) when we'll be flying back around 5:00 PM and landing at 8:00 PM. Gotta love the crazy time changes when traveling over multiple timezones.
So now we just need to figure out what we are going to do for six days. We'll be joining dad for Thanksgiving dinner at a local restaurant, as well as going to a performance of Phantom of the Opera. I also want to make sure we hit the British Museum, and I think we'll take a day trip out to Stonehenge as well. Everything else is up in the air at the moment.
In other news, Kate and I will be going with Kevin and Lynn to the Maryland Renaissance Festival this weekend. Should be fun.
After last weeks disastrous night of league bowling I put together a much better score this week. I went 142 for the first game, 158 for the second, and then dropped to a measly 102 for the final game. I guess I was getting tired, but it seemed like everyone else was slowing down too. While I'm very pleased with my performance (especially the 158 which is now my highest score ever) it's going to really mess up my average in the short term. I was being given a 120 pin handicap, and that's probably going to drop to 99 pins. I better hope I can keep up the high scores for next week's game.
- T