25 Years and STILL in Love!

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we are treating ourselves to a whirlwind trip through Europe.

For the past three days, we have been waking up earlier and earlier, to pre-JetLag ourselves onto UK time. We are pretty tired now, and ready to sleep (which is a good thing, because while it's now 4:30 pm Eastern time, it's already 9:30 in the UK.) So, hopefully our pre-planning will pay off upon arrival with minimal transition.

I exchanged $100 bucks USD at the Orlando International Airport moments ago. The conversion rate SUCKS!!!

We have about another hour until we board the plane. We are flying Virgin Airlines round trip. We are both looking forward to this flight. (I have upgraded our tickets to a Premium-class seating assignment for the flight there, and I hear that it's equal to our US first-class accommodations.) I'm hoping that we earn enough frequent flyer miles on our outbound flight, to gain a free upgrade for the return flight...

We will be gone for about 25 days. Thus far, I have only secured accommodations for about nine or 10 of those days. We are kinda flying by the seat of our pants for the rest of the dates! ;-) I duno where we will stay in Paris, Amsterdam, Innsbruck, Venice, nor Switzerland. (Which also means I duno where we will be staying during New Years Eve yet... I'm sure it will come together soon enough. That's part of the fun and the adventure! -- LIVE LIFE!!!


Our current itinerary:

London, England: December 14-17
Ferry across the English Channel Dover-to-Calais
(the ol' fashion way -- we ARE boaters after all)
Paris, France: December 18 - 19
Brussels, Belgium: December 20
Amsterdam, Netherlands: December 21
Düsseldorf, Germany: December 22
Innsbruck, Austria: December 26
Venice, Italy: TBD
Switzerland: TBD


I'll try to post updates regularly -- but, no promises. (We may be having too much fun to boot-up the computer.)

Cheers,


Nick.