You can tell that V. is not home this weekend because I'm actually getting to post this morning. If V. was home, he'd be doing his online reading of 20 worldwide newspapers, basically blocking me from getting on the computer to check in on my "peeps" and do a morning post. I guess this is the upside of him being gone; I get to post.
The past couple of weeks at night I've been researching on end the logistics of a week long vacation in Puerto Rico. Talk about exhausting though it's my own fault. I take researching to a whole new level but it's a good thing I do. Let me give an example why.
I spent a whole week gathering possible rentals, most of them falling into a certain city. The prices were decent, the condo area looked nice, the beach sounded good, and I kept reading in the reviews how all the owners would meet the guests at the airport and escort them to the resort. I thought, "How nice that they do that! That way people don't get lost." As I reached the end of the rental research, I remembered that I forgot to check TripAdvisor.com for people's review of the area and resort so I clicked my way over to that site.
Boy, oh boy, am I glad I did. Because in the forum for that city and resort, everyone commented how while the condo resort was really nice, don't venture off the complex which by the way, is surrounded by a big fence and guards, because the area surrounding it is not safe. As in people were hearing gun shots outside the wall. Strikes me as a USC situation - nice area surrounded by the ghetto. So unless you want to be escorted in and never venture out, this is the perfect place for you. SO glad I read that but that meant I had to basically start over from square one, thus more research.
Two nights ago, I think I found the perfect place on the beach that I wanted to be on so I'm waiting for an email back from them hopefully telling me that it's available. Last night, I started tackling the task of figuring out the less appealing logistics namely how are we getting there, how can we get there without I. turning into a hot tired mess, how are we going to handle the car seat and sleeping arrangements for I. Mind you, all those "are we's" in that last sentence should be changed to "am I" because V. has no concept of the planning of things. Even when I try to explain what it entails, he just laughs it off and offers some lame comment like "I. doesn't need a carseat. She'll be fine." It's better for my mental state to not say anything to him because he just aggravates me on this kind of topic.
So far, I know that V. and the girls will be using United frequent flyer points (as V. requested) and will be flying over and back on red eyes because that's what United requires. There's not enough points for I. and I which is just as well because neither she nor I could do a red eye. However, what this means is that I. and I will be flying to and from Puerto Rico alone meaning I will not have any help. Somehow that strikes me as fitting. On the positive side, it means that I can choose when we fly. It looks like we'll fly the day before our reservations begin, spend the night in Atlanta, and then fly to Puerto Rico that next day. The flights will still be early in the morning which means both I. and I will be pretty exhausted but it beats a red eye. My main concern was getting into destinations before 5pm so that there could be some hope of I. getting to bed at a decent hour.
I'm not even going to get into the car seat and Pack&Play topics because it's just too much. Instead I'm going to start living in what today is going to bring. I'm taking I. to see a movie (Ocean) in a little while and us animal lovers are looking forward to it. Then to Kohl's for a little shopping, courtesy of some gift cards and then possibly an early dinner at Souplantation, which coicidentally I just found a coupon for in this morning's paper.
That's it, random thoughts that became less random as I wrote them but they're out of my head and that's always a good thing!
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