The next year, another spur-of-the-moment trip. (I love my family. :)) My dad came home from work one day and said, "Anyone want to go to England in a few weeks?!" Hahaha!
He had noticed some amazing fares and jumped on it, figuring, why the heck not...?
A midnight-trip to Kinko's for passport photos was really the only casualty of our quick planning (we all looked pretty scary! Haha!) and, thanks to being willing to leave last-second and on Christmas Eve, we were able to take a trip of a lifetime that we surely couldn't have taken otherwise.
Strike Two against tourist season. :)
My dad even made it on the news to share this awesome travel strategy! There was a news crew at the airport and my brother Dave, ever the extravert :), shouted over to them: "Hey! Can we get an interview?!" And they actually came over! Turned their lights on us and asked my dad why were we traveling on Christmas Eve...?
When we came home two weeks later, our neighbors and friends were all excited to tell us they'd seen us on the news with his two brief words of wisdom:
"CHEAP. AIRFARE."
Moral of the story: You can go more places if you go at a weird time. And you can even get on TV. :)
2 comments:
What an unforgettable trip! Although I must admit that traveling the week between Christmas and New Year's is almost as bad as any summer vacation in a lot of places. EVERY school is out. But to England, in the winter, fantastic!!! Good story. School does stink. It has taken Mark three weeks to stop planning things on school days (see our kinder is 1/2 day so missing wasn't such a big deal, it's just kindergarten. They usually already know most of the stuff any way, not much new stuff being learned, but first grade and spanish is a different story). Any way, I hear ya, it's hard to start school. I'm not liking it much AT ALL!
PS: We are doing Disney in October! Love it!!!
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