We were planning to fly to New Hampshire and drive into Canada spending a couple of nights in Magog, Quebec City and Montreal, however we had a last minute change of plans. Beth has an unbelievable talent to uncover amazing travel deals. As my former best friend at work Tammy Collier used to say "it seems like they usually end up paying you guys to go on these trips".
I'm not sure if we've ever actually been paid but we've done some crazy and amazing things often times at the last minute because the deals were too good to pass up. There was the time Beth and some friends and family flew roundtrip from Florida to New York six times in a week to earn a bunch of travel certificates for anywhere in the world that American Airlines flew. We then used the certificates to go to Hawaii and Italy. I'd gladly share with you some of her secrets but I don't know how she does it, I just enjoy what she comes up with.
The "offer we couldn't refuse" this time is a cruise from New York that leaves Sunday and returns the following Saturday. It goes to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saint John, New Brunswick and Portland, Maine. Interesting ports, none of which I have been to but that Beth has visited on one of her famous "old lady trips" with her mom and sisters. So thanks to the great cancellation policies that Southwest Airlines offers we cancelled the New Hampshire flight and rebooked for New York and will be heading up in the morning. If you ever choose to become a "traveling idiot" yourself and you are going to travel domestically I would encourage you to strongly consider looking at Southwest. As I stated, their cancellation polices are great, they don't charge for bags although you should never pack so much you have to check a bag and they are actually friendly and act as if you are not an interruption to their day. By the way for this trip we are each packing in about a half a back pack. We could probably fit everything into one backpack but I'm afraid it might be too heavy for Beth to lug around New York.
Current weather conditions in Halifax: 57 degrees
Current weather conditions on AMI 85 degrees combined with about 100% humidity thanks to the storm from earlier this week to create a "feels like" temperature of 95! The cooler temperatures are going to feel great plus I just can't do anything with my hair in this heat and humidity!
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| Beth is packed and ready to go! Julia and Roxanne check out the luggage tag! |
