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OK. First up I'm keeping a journal of my Washington adventure. I'm going to try to get people I meet along the way to write in it, and I'll use facing pages for ticket stubs and such.
My ticket and packing and reservation process has gone smoothly. Expensive, but smoothly.
Kerri dam' near had a heart attack a couple of hours back. She looked at her e-ticket confirmation and realised that somehowinstead of the Korean Air flight over the pole she thought she was taking, she was somehow booked on Qantas for about $6000 extra. Money that hadn't been approved and if spent would cripple her section budget for the rest of the year. She was beginning to panic, thinking that maybe she wouldn't go at all, and I was starting to think that I might be going by myself and staying in a hostel bunk bed for a week.
Eventually she found someone to ring up and managed to get it all sorted out. She's still flying Qantas, but economy rather than business - a considerable saving. On the way out she's taking the same flights as I am, but a day later, and on the way back we'll actually be on the same plane across the Pacific. With any luck we'll be able to sit together.
So until that was sorted out, I couldn't book my first night's accomodation. I had been planning to stay at a hotel near the airport and meet her on arrival at 1000 the next day, but as now she isn't getting in until 2036, then I shall stay at the youth hostel - cheap and cheerful, just the way I like, and migrate over to the hotel about lunchtime Saturday to wait for her to turn up later that evening. We have four nights at the Marriott before heading over to Arlington Hyatt. I think Kerri gets the Sunday off, but she might need it to recover after the flight. Usually she pulls up OK after a long haul flight in business class, but DD indicated a wooden kitchen chair by way of illustrating the comfort levels in economy.
OK. We're all sorted now. I've got my bag packed, my backpack is reasonably complete, and I just need to finish registering these books. And to sort out what's going on the computer.
My ticket and packing and reservation process has gone smoothly. Expensive, but smoothly.
Kerri dam' near had a heart attack a couple of hours back. She looked at her e-ticket confirmation and realised that somehowinstead of the Korean Air flight over the pole she thought she was taking, she was somehow booked on Qantas for about $6000 extra. Money that hadn't been approved and if spent would cripple her section budget for the rest of the year. She was beginning to panic, thinking that maybe she wouldn't go at all, and I was starting to think that I might be going by myself and staying in a hostel bunk bed for a week.
Eventually she found someone to ring up and managed to get it all sorted out. She's still flying Qantas, but economy rather than business - a considerable saving. On the way out she's taking the same flights as I am, but a day later, and on the way back we'll actually be on the same plane across the Pacific. With any luck we'll be able to sit together.
So until that was sorted out, I couldn't book my first night's accomodation. I had been planning to stay at a hotel near the airport and meet her on arrival at 1000 the next day, but as now she isn't getting in until 2036, then I shall stay at the youth hostel - cheap and cheerful, just the way I like, and migrate over to the hotel about lunchtime Saturday to wait for her to turn up later that evening. We have four nights at the Marriott before heading over to Arlington Hyatt. I think Kerri gets the Sunday off, but she might need it to recover after the flight. Usually she pulls up OK after a long haul flight in business class, but DD indicated a wooden kitchen chair by way of illustrating the comfort levels in economy.
OK. We're all sorted now. I've got my bag packed, my backpack is reasonably complete, and I just need to finish registering these books. And to sort out what's going on the computer.