It only took eight days of teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing to finagle a cheap enough way to fly us there. FYI, I used 45,000 Delta SkyMiles to save $450 off Rachel's itinerary, and I used $339 in vouchers for mine. Total cost: Less than $700 for two roundtrip flights to Europe. Boo-yah! Take that, crummy economic situation! I own you!
As I mentioned yesterday, I've taken on a much grander than usual travel planning effort, and as a result am currently sharing a bed with a dozen guidebooks, novels, maps and plays that will remind me of everything I once learned in AP European History. I just can't accept that my mini-me doesn't give a hoot who conquered which town in 1407. I hope that once we're walking cobblestone streets, she'll suddenly realize her burning desire to know what happened between King Henry & Anne Boleyn. Ever the prepared one, I'll be standing by with the down-and-dirty historical deets.
What I'm reading to get ready:
- Fodor's London & Paris
- Walks in Hemingway's Paris
- Les Miserables
- Romeo + Juliet
- Vanity Fair
- The Prince + The Pauper
- A Garden in Paris
- Paris Discovered, Explorations in the City of Light
- The Collected Traveler: Paris, an Inspired Anthology & Travel Resource
What RaeRae is reading to get ready:
- Nothing
- But she is watching movies like Moulin Rouge, Peter Pan and Ratatouille...
- And she did look at a map to find out where Europe is. So there's that.
Once I have a more secure itinerary, I'll post it here so you fab readers can help with tweaks + suggestions.
2 comments:
I literally laughed out loud at Rae Rae's reading list. Hahaha.
Tell her to watch The Other Boleyn Girl if she's not into a reading list. It's a little bit accurate. Haha.
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