Wow! What a long, crazy, head spinning day. I was waiting to hear back from 2 different travel agents in regards to flight options. One thing that is nice is that our agency says we are to be there the night of Feb. 27 and will be leaving the night of March 2. We still weren't sure what day we would leave due to flight times, etc...I heard back from "C." In fact, due to me being in school, we emailed quite a bit today. (It wasn't a very productive school day...good thing it was Friday) She emailed us some prices. We finally got it worked out so that we could get in on the Ethiopian Air BOGO sale. Woo-hoo!!! After much research, questioning, thinking, etc...we had an idea of what we were going to do. When I got home, I called "C." Turns out she forgot to check to see about black out days in regards to the sale. Sure enough, we can't use it b/c we need to fly home on a Friday or Saturday and they won't allow that. Sad!!! We had an idea of what ticket prices would be. Then all day we were hopefully we were going to save hundreds of dollars, just to have the day end at the price we started with. Big bummer. By this time of the day (and week) I was pretty spent. My brain was turning to mush. We have a super good friend that said these ticket prices were high. However, the other agency didn't return any calls. I left messages with 2 different agents. :( Someone else told me tonight that "C" was the best price when they called. I'm sure it all changes all of the time. Ugh! What do we do? We currently have tickets "on hold" with C. We have 6 days to book them. I did email our agency to see if they approved of the current plan. They did. Even if we end up not going with this travel agent, I needed to be reassured that we would be "approved." Our agency would like us to get to ET at night, but we will get there in the am. We will not get to meet our little one any earlier and we will have a whole day to hang out at the hotel. What do you do?! So...I was finally feeling some relief until I sat down and studied the flight details. I looked at our seating arrangements. Quite a few times, there is a seat in between Jason and I. What is up with that???? I'm not okay with that especially for a 13 hour flight!!! So I emailed our travel agent back. I debated and debated and debated about calling the number listed on our flight plan. It says if something is wrong with the date or the names to call them ASAP. I know this isn't a huge deal so I didn't call, but it is a huge deal for me. This trip is going to be hard in so many ways. I do not want to be away from my husband. ;) It is certainly time to go to bed. My brain is mush and I just need to be done with it for now. Nothing can be done now until Monday anway unless I hear back from C. We will not book our tickets until Monday anyway. We will see if I hear back from the other travel agency or not. Since our tickets are on hold, our price is locked in. That is nice.
On a fun note, I got to talk to E that just got back from Ethiopia on Wednesday of this week. That was great! We talked for about an hour. Amazing how you can feel so connected with a stranger. ;) We have so much in common. She gave me many, many pointers and might be changing her phone number and email before we leave for this trip. :) Once again, so thankful for our AGCI family.
Until later.....
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