Planning for Vacations

Ok, so it hasn't been that long since I posted an update but I figured I would do another one. The exciting things to happen have all been dealing with vacations. Next week I go to Dubai for about 3.5 days. It should be fun, I'm going to sleep in, go to a water park, shop at Ikea, and enjoy the fact that I don't live there.

For my vacation in July I made my reservations for flying into Warsaw on July 10th, leave here the night before, and fly back from Helsinki on the 1st of August. I'll be visiting Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and then overnight in Finland. (5 countries, 5 different currencies, and 5 different languages...should be fun) I am working on getting lodging, hostels, for the 9 places I will be. I also need to figure out the whole transportation issue, trains probably won't be used as much this time.

Ok, my score is for my vacation in September. I wanted to go to Greece but wasn't sure where I wanted to go but I knew I didn't want to spend a lot of money. A friend who works at the TAMUQ library wanted to go too and so we are going to take a cruise. We found a cruise through Costa Cruises in and out of Venice, Italy for $625. The cruise is 7 nights and the price is for the cheapest room on board. Neither one of us cared about that because, well, you don't spend time in the room so why pay a lot for it? We will arrive the day before the cruise leaves so we get a day or so in Venice, so sad isn't it?

Rereading this post it seems like all I do is take vacations. Really, that isn't true. I do work, every week from Sunday through Thursday. Work is going well. I am not doing research any longer, I'm working on changing labs.

Hope all is going well.

Eric's Hat

I know, it is a wonderful picture of me, but don't look at me, look at the hat! I finished it last night and it will soon be sent to my brother-in-law in Oregon. I think it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. I started a scarf that I don't know if I that taken with the pattern, it is pretty but a pain in the butt to knit.

Ok, other news, there really isn't a lot going on. I am trying to get an idea of my summer plans so I can start looking at flights/lodging/transportation. I am still looking at going to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. I'll fly into Prague or Krakow and then out of Helsinki. Helsinki is a must for this trip because then I can get more eye drops. Sad, when part of your vacation planning in around buying eye drops.

Anyway, hope all is going well with you!