Here's to another travel adventure filled year!
As far as New Years Days go this one was pretty quiet...except for the gym! I got to the gym as the doors opened at 10am and jumped right on the cardio machine of my choice. Good thing I didn't wait until 10:15 am to get there...most every machine was in use by then! And they were 3 deep at the front desk filling out membership forms.
Looks like the gym will be crowded for the next 4-6 weeks...then I predict it will be back to normal with the "regulars" there!
And now for some travel news....
I purchased my airline ticket for the Turkey trip on Saturday. CL cashed in some of her frequent flyer miles on Saturday and booked her flights in the morning and sent me her itinerary. I jumped on the Delta Airlines website Saturday night and purchased my tickets for Istanbul!!! Not cheap, but I wanted to buy them now because my gut is telling me the prices will most likely go up and not down. And it was just about the same price as we paid for last year's Central Europe flights, so I felt it was time to purchase. Now I can check "airline tickets" off my Turkey Trip "to do" list! :)
Also I just sent an email to the hotel we will be staying at in Istanbul with the tour to get a reservation for the day we arrive. We are arriving the day before the tour starts...since we hope to get over jet lag, or at least have a bit of a head start on getting over the jet lag! :) This way we won't feel like we've been "shot out of a gun" when we meet up with the tour group.
So, as it stands now we will be departing Savannah on Saturday, September 22, 2007 and arriving in Istanbul on Sunday, September 23, 2007 and the tour starts in the evening of September 24th.
We also decided on the return to stay over a night in NYC. We will leave Istanbul on Wednesday, October 10,2007, arrive in NYC that afternoon and stay there overnight and fly back to Savannah on October 11, 2007. This then gives me 3 days (Friday -Sunday) to get over the "returning home" jet lag before I have to be back to work on Monday, October 15th.
Whew...and this was just the airfare coordination. We still have to meet with CL's Turkish friend to coordinate our "extra" days in Turkey...meeting with his family and have dinner with them while in Turkey. And then the hotel in NYC and transportation to and from the various airports and hotels during the trip...it will all come together.
Once I get a handle on the Turkey trip plans then I can start doing my Rome at Christmas research...but I can't even start to look at airfares for that trip until the end of January so I can hold off on that.
I am soooooo EXCITED about all my trips this year! AND the first one is in just 11 days...4 days with my best friends in Tucson...Can't wait!
Happy Travels!
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