A bit of a snag
Just when we thought we had everything figured out in our Paris plans, another wrinkle came along. This was supposed to be a very simple plan, but I guess that's just not how life goes.
We had decided that we wanted to go to Paris at the end of September and beginning of October, but that we wanted to be flexible about it. See, there's a play that we would like to see, and there's actually three parts to it. The first part will be playing in September, the second in October, and the third in November and December.
Unfortunately, we're pretty sure we're not prepared to stay in Paris long enough to see all three shows, especially because our stepbrother is getting married in late October, so we need to be back in the States for that. Also, our ward's Primary program is the day after the wedding, which is going to make for some interesting travel plans, since it's a four hour drive between where we live and where the wedding will be, but more importantly, since Athena is now the Primary Song Leader, we really do both need to attend our ward in October to help the kids prepare. It's okay to miss the first Sunday in October, though, because that's General Conference weekend, so there won't be any Primary anyway.
It really seems like a no-brainer, then, to go to Paris for the last weekend in September and the first weekend in October, and that way we can see two parts of the play. And then if we like it, and we're feeling especially rich, we can just go back in November or December to see the third part. But we didn't want to commit, because there's a bit of a snag. The play only runs on Sundays.
As longtime readers may or may not be aware, we're fairly religious, and we like to honor the sabbath by not working on Sundays. And since it's not fair to make other people work to entertain us on days when we refuse to work, we also stay home from places like Disneyland, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. There are extenuating circumstances we can use to justify seeing the play anyway, including what our mother (who pretty ordered us to see the play) calls "vacation rules," as well as reasons that we hope are less self-serving, so we had pretty much landed on, "We'll plan to go see the play twice, but if another option presents itself, we'll seriously consider it."
That brings us to today. Cecille, who previously told us she was going to pass on the Paris thing in favor of going to Tokyo later in the year, informed us there's a potential change in plans. Her Tokyo travel buddy may need to move the trip to summer instead of winter, so if we go to Paris late August/early September, she might be able to join us. Depending on how long into September counts as "early September," going during that time could mean definitely not seeing the play, Sunday or not.
On top of that, almost in passing, she added that she and another pair of mutual friends are going to try to get tickets to the Oogie Boogie Bash or whatever they call the special separate-admission thing they do at Disneyland for Halloween. I wasn't even thinking when I said, "Want us to use our early access to get tickets for you?" In our minds, it was obvious that we would be getting tickets only for them, but I keep forgetting that other people keep forgetting the "hate" part of our love-hate relationship with Disneyland.
The exchange was very brief, because she had already told us that she needed to get back to work. So now we don't know if they expect us to join them or not, nor do we know what dates they want to try for. If they want to try for late September/early October, there could be trouble. I mean, they would all understand if we didn't join them because we really want to be in France around then, so I don't think there would be that much trouble...as long as Disney doesn't make us connect the special tickets to our annual passes, or magic keys, or whatever they're calling them.
Ultimately, we're pretty sure everything will be fine. I just needed to vent a little bit, because it's all I can do while we wait for more information. Cecille won't know what her travel buddy's circumstances are until Saturday.
In the meantime, we tried and failed to get autograph tickets for Nakaba Suzuki. At least it was a relatively short and painless disappointment. Only about ten minutes in a virtual queue, as opposed to two hours standing in line in a physical queue.
Today I'm thankful for fast-moving virtual queues, work going pretty well, being this much closer to finishing all the "She Meets Skate" interviews for Sketchy, a new featured course on Pokemon Snap, and having fancy ice cream to eat.
We had decided that we wanted to go to Paris at the end of September and beginning of October, but that we wanted to be flexible about it. See, there's a play that we would like to see, and there's actually three parts to it. The first part will be playing in September, the second in October, and the third in November and December.
Unfortunately, we're pretty sure we're not prepared to stay in Paris long enough to see all three shows, especially because our stepbrother is getting married in late October, so we need to be back in the States for that. Also, our ward's Primary program is the day after the wedding, which is going to make for some interesting travel plans, since it's a four hour drive between where we live and where the wedding will be, but more importantly, since Athena is now the Primary Song Leader, we really do both need to attend our ward in October to help the kids prepare. It's okay to miss the first Sunday in October, though, because that's General Conference weekend, so there won't be any Primary anyway.
It really seems like a no-brainer, then, to go to Paris for the last weekend in September and the first weekend in October, and that way we can see two parts of the play. And then if we like it, and we're feeling especially rich, we can just go back in November or December to see the third part. But we didn't want to commit, because there's a bit of a snag. The play only runs on Sundays.
As longtime readers may or may not be aware, we're fairly religious, and we like to honor the sabbath by not working on Sundays. And since it's not fair to make other people work to entertain us on days when we refuse to work, we also stay home from places like Disneyland, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. There are extenuating circumstances we can use to justify seeing the play anyway, including what our mother (who pretty ordered us to see the play) calls "vacation rules," as well as reasons that we hope are less self-serving, so we had pretty much landed on, "We'll plan to go see the play twice, but if another option presents itself, we'll seriously consider it."
That brings us to today. Cecille, who previously told us she was going to pass on the Paris thing in favor of going to Tokyo later in the year, informed us there's a potential change in plans. Her Tokyo travel buddy may need to move the trip to summer instead of winter, so if we go to Paris late August/early September, she might be able to join us. Depending on how long into September counts as "early September," going during that time could mean definitely not seeing the play, Sunday or not.
On top of that, almost in passing, she added that she and another pair of mutual friends are going to try to get tickets to the Oogie Boogie Bash or whatever they call the special separate-admission thing they do at Disneyland for Halloween. I wasn't even thinking when I said, "Want us to use our early access to get tickets for you?" In our minds, it was obvious that we would be getting tickets only for them, but I keep forgetting that other people keep forgetting the "hate" part of our love-hate relationship with Disneyland.
The exchange was very brief, because she had already told us that she needed to get back to work. So now we don't know if they expect us to join them or not, nor do we know what dates they want to try for. If they want to try for late September/early October, there could be trouble. I mean, they would all understand if we didn't join them because we really want to be in France around then, so I don't think there would be that much trouble...as long as Disney doesn't make us connect the special tickets to our annual passes, or magic keys, or whatever they're calling them.
Ultimately, we're pretty sure everything will be fine. I just needed to vent a little bit, because it's all I can do while we wait for more information. Cecille won't know what her travel buddy's circumstances are until Saturday.
In the meantime, we tried and failed to get autograph tickets for Nakaba Suzuki. At least it was a relatively short and painless disappointment. Only about ten minutes in a virtual queue, as opposed to two hours standing in line in a physical queue.
Today I'm thankful for fast-moving virtual queues, work going pretty well, being this much closer to finishing all the "She Meets Skate" interviews for Sketchy, a new featured course on Pokemon Snap, and having fancy ice cream to eat.