I can has plane tickets!

May 11, 2009 21:39

For your information, this is now my dedicated air-travel icon.

Just so you know.

I got my plane tickets today for the study-abroad trip: $907 to fly from Pasco to Heathrow, then from Charles de Gaul back to Pasco. Flying into and out of Seattle, the cheapest airport? $823.

Not spending four more hours in the car after spending fourteen hours in an airplane? TOTALLY WORTH THE EXTRA SEVENTY FIVE BUCKS. This isn't even getting INTO parking or gas money.... that's easily cheaper than airport parking, and probably cheaper than the two round-trips it would take for someone to drop me off. And I do not have to ride in a car for four hours before I can take a shower.

Eeeexcellent.

I arrive in London at 9 in the morning, which is nice. I'll need to buy train passes at the airport (7 day student travel pass, zones 1-6, peak hours inclusive, which is not important to you all BUT I NEED TO REMEMBER ^^;;), which will not be that hard, because I speak British English. However, it might be time consuming, because I will have been in an airplane for fourteen hours, and possibly have left all my gray matter in checked baggage. Thank goodness airport employees are patient after long hours of exposure to plane zombies and jetlag bitches has broken their souls.

Sad to say, because of budget cuts (tuition has skyrocketed every time someone cannot afford to go, which makes others not afford to go.... HEY WAIT CIRCLE OW) we will not be going to see Ste. Bernadette. There will be plenty of relics, just not an entire dead Catholic. I confess disappointment, as I was looking forward to making the lady's acquaintance. Perhaps I should take the train to see her on my own?

I return July 23, at 8-something pm, which is also a very human hour to get off a plane, be fed, bathed, and comatose. It is after a five-hour layover in Salt Lake City, which is not quite that humane, but at least SLC is one of my favorite airports, and, if things look dire, friends of friends can come feed me.

Now, the question is... what to do with six days in Paris? The Louvre is huge, but I don't know if I'm dedicated enough to spend more than three days there. Perhaps the Orangerie?

travel, france, pieces of dead catholics

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