money for nothing and your trips aint free
today i found a new way to spend money efficiently. magnificent charles and i decided we had way too much money kicking around and needed to get rid of some of it. pronto.
in less than 20 minutes i spent $12,000 canadian. all i did was book flights for us from hong kong to vancouver.
understatement: flying with children is expensive.
right now it looks like magnificent charles will have to fly over to vancouver, maybe spend a few days with us there, and then leave again. why the short stay? because for safety reasons we need one adult per child under two. so, three adults. lita will also come with us. please remind me i need to take care of her visa soon as well.
money aside, here are a few aspects of holidays i don’t like:
1) did i mention that i don’t have a driver’s license? i don’t. two years seizure free and all that business. so when we travel anywhere we are completely dependent on other people to chauffeur us around. to collect car seats in advance, and be willing to drive us around in a big van. I HATE THAT. i wish i had independence.
2) we’re travelling with a lot of baggage this year. getting through customs will be a nightmare. forget medicating the kiddies, tess will be needing frequent top-ups.
3) getting from location to location is going to be a second nightmare. how to get from vancouver to kelowna? how to get around vancouver? to get all kids to see my grandad in his nursing home? to get the four generation picture of women of my gran, my mum, myself, carys and sela. i can hardly wait for that photo.
4) getting babies switched around to new time zones.
5) being without magnificent charles. magnificent doesn’t get a lot of holidays, and when he does get holidays he wants to just stare at a lake, create a tiny boat with macgyver like materials (pop rocks, four postage stamps, one kentucky fried chicken napkin, leg wax and mascara) laugh and talk. he deserves that downtime, his health needs it as well. i don’t like being away from him for that long, but if i am going to do #4, then i need to be gone for a substantial amount of time.
but the positive aspects are so positive. being with family outweighs all the evil and, the cost. our families are doing everything they can to make our journey a little easier, more on that later.
money for nothing and your trips aint free
money for nothing
i want my, i want my, i want my chu-u-ckie
i want my, i want my, i want my chu-u-ckie!
