Weekend in Review

Remember that post about the uncertainties of military life?  Travel Daddy returned Friday night after a two week trip.  Sunday evening, he got a call which resulted in a plan to leave again Wednesday.  That plan was scratched by a phone call this morning with a plan to go somewhere else..."oh, and by the way, can you leave today?"  This is our continual reality.

We also tried to plan an itinerary for a possible trip in the next month or so.  The planning went something like this...

PLAN A:
TD: "How about we do a quick tour of Eastern European capitals? (Budapest, Bratislava, Zagreb, and Ljubljana)
Me: "Ok!  I'll start researching"
(After a trip to the library, checking out 7 different travel books on Eastern Europe, and some research)...

Me: "There's too much to see near Ljubljana for the time that we have.  We'll have to divide up the capitals"

PLAN A2:
"Why go to Zagreb when the sites in Split are so much better?  We could see a Diocletian Palace!  Oh!  and check out the Plitvice Lakes National Park!"  (In all honesty, I have NO CLUE how to pronounce Plitvice...so this was more like..."check out this place with the lakes!")
"If we drive to Dubrovnik, we will get to go through five miles of Bosnia-Herzegovina."

**discovered that one of the sites near Ljubljana does not open until the beginning of April**

PLAN B:
"New Plan!  How about Budapest, Bratislava and Vienna?"
"There's too much to see in Vienna to combine it with Budapest and Bratislava with the time that we have"

PLAN C:
"What's if we go to Poland instead?  Warsaw?"
"If we go to Krakow instead of Warsaw, we'll be right by Auschwitz...I'd really like to go there"
"Do we want to take the children to Auschwitz?"
"Do I want to celebrate my birthday with a trip to a concentration camp?"

PLAN D:
"How about Vienna?"


At time of posting, I have come up with 7 different itineraries, complete with mileage charts and fuel cost estimates...and we are no closer to actually going anywhere.  I have, however, learned how to pronounce Ljubljana, and discovered that Slovenia is a BEAUTIFUL country.  Hope we make it there someday!

Book Recommendation...

I don't know how often I'll do this, but I really feel compelled to let you know about this book we've happened upon.  It is clever, it is cute, and Tootsie and Turkey really enjoy it.  Drumroll please............................

Exclamation Mark!
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenhelf

Follow the journey of a punctuation mark, as it tries to figure out it's role.  Other punctuation marks make their appropriate appearances.  As I'm typing this, it all seems very silly, but REALLY...check it out from your library.  You won't regret it :)