Categories: uncategorized, rejoice-with-me
Tags: sleep, holiday, USA, Amtrak
Date: 29 April 2010 16:15:01
I've been and gone and done it! (actually i haven't been and gone yet, but as a result of doing it I will be and go this summer). Yes folks, I have booked three flights with a well known carrier to the good old U S of A, and am in process of working out a complicated itinerary which enables me and my hardworking family to stay in four different places and visit (or, in USspeak, 'visit with') seven different pairs of friends who have in the past been on the staff of the London Mennonite Centre and part of our congregation. Indeed, we will be 'Mennoniting our way'.
Not only that, but I have done the whole process (well, most of it, of which more later) online, grappling yesterday and today with multiple websites and dates and prices which sent my head into a total spin. I am still not out of the woods, since I need to book two 'roomettes' on an overnight train from Chicago to Pennsylvania, but can't do that until I hear from the Pennsylvania friends as to whether the dates we have chosen suit them. By which time, the 'roomettes' may very probably be booked up. Incidentally, the Amtrak website assured me that the standard bedroom could accommodate three people at a push, but when I tried to book one, it kept telling me the room was too small for the number of travellers. Make your minds up, Amtrak!
Somehow, (she says, crossing everything crossable and uttering a silent prayer), in a couple of months' time we will be literally winging (and I mean literally literally) our way across the Pond that divides us by a common language. Whoopee! Well actually I am too exhausted to shout Whoopee, having been awake half the night worrying about the trip, but I promise I'll shout Whoopee when I've had some sleep.