Julie's Boggle

The next 4 weeks coming up are certainly seeing the bump and me getting around quite a bit. Two international trips in a month — all very exciting!

The first trip coming up is to New York, and I’m leaving tomorrow night!

This one came about because Tom’s calendar is just manic for March and April and he couldn’t find any decent stretch of days between the Alpha course (he’s been helping out with that recently), Easter, and ante-natal classes. So he ended up needing to go over my birthday, and, well… You can see where that one would lead can’t you?

We came out fairly well with my ticket too.

We didn’t have enough advance warning to cash in Tom’s AA miles, but we did manage to find a cheap-ish ticket for me (a lot cheaper than the alternatives at any rate) by having me leave on Thursday instead of Friday evening. A whole extra day in New York, what’s a girl to do…?

(It doesn’t make any difference to the company’s hotel bill because in New York they charge the same for single and double-occupancy.)

So that takes care of Friday, all the way through to Tuesday night when I fly back. And I’m looking forward to a slap-up birthday meal on Monday night :party: — especially since Tom’s half of the bill gets charged back.

Then just over two weeks later, we’re going to Prague for a 10th anniversary holiday. (Gosh a whole decade! And it just keeps getting better. )

The organisation of this trip took a lot of heavy Expedia-surfing on my part. All with the aim of squeezing the most value, hotel-wise and flight-wise, for the amount of money that Tom was prepared for us to spend.

It took some time but eventually I pinned us down a package of flights from Heathrow (the value here is in the convenience), and a decent hotel about 10 minutes walk from the “Old Town” centre. (Read “tourist central”.)

It looks like a really interesting city, steeped in history, so hold thumbs for good weather and no pregnancy inconveniences to slow us down overly much. More details will follow!