Well I forgot to start a new thread so here goes.
Thank you my friends for your on-going support.
Jeff and I started planning our trip over seas.
To celebrate our 20 wedding anniversary we are going to go to italy and paris.
I am contacting a travel agent recommended by a friend of mine.
We will be flying to Indy this year/trip, renting a car to use for a couple of days then back to the airport to drop off the car and leave for our big trip, probably about 11 days or so. Then fly back to Indy rent a car for a couple of days then fly back to Lafayette. We save 4 days of driving this way and I just did not want to have to drive home 2 days after the trip. And I did not want to inconvenience anyone to have to take us to the airport 45 minutes from his moms house. That puts us gone about 20 days.

I just got off the phone with a travel agent and he is going to figure out some travel options and email itineraries.

Very exciting!
bizi

Travel plans changed when we really looked at it.
We are not combining it with an Indy visit this year.
Since we will be gone about 2 weeks just for the europe trip, jeff decided to visit his mom later in the summer: july or august.
I will not be making the trip this summer., can't really afford to take off another week's work.
I will just see my family at christmas time.
We are using my sisters, S-I-L who is a travel agent so am happy about that!
I spoke to her yesterday and emailed her our basic itinerary last night.
She will work on flights today. She is traveling in a couple of weeks and will be gone 2 1/2 weeks so she has time right now to arrange things for us.
She will even help us reserve rooms.
Very excited about doing this.
This may be our last trip over seas due to heighten security issues getting worse with time.
bizi

I got up early because I could not sleep.
Am already starting to get geared up, thinking about our trip.
I will really need to be careful.....
getting ready to have a second cup of coffee.
bizi

I am so happy for you Bizi! This is so exciting!

You have been down for a little while and planning this trip could be just what you need right now. And when you take this trip, you will literally be widening your world.

I can see how planing the little details and looking forward to it over time could be activating too, though. But you are aware of the potential and I know that you have a very good friend (I'm sorry I forgot her name) who is in tune to your mood changes. Between the both of you I'm sure that you can keep an eye on things.

Italy-3 nights in rome, including a side day trip to pompeii (maybe)
2 nights in florence
2 nights in venice
fly to paris for 4 nights.
wow!
bizi

This is the plan so far from the travel agent?

It looks fun.

M

This is what I gave to her, diane is working on getting flights for us.
She is to call me tonight.
bizi

Bizi, that sounds like a great trip - I hope that you and Jeff enjoy yourselves .

We are working with a travel guide to arrange our trip to europe this june.
I was on the phone with her last night and we finalized our itinerary, flights.
We are going to fly to Rome spend 3 nights including a day trip to pompaii , train to florence for 2 nights then train to venice for 2 nights then plane to paris for 4 nights including a day trip to versailles.
Hubby and I have saved 10 years for this trip celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary this year.
I am a bit concerned about my drinking. Our drink of choice is craft beers, me a stout/porter and jeff an IPA.
Wondering if therre will be any good beers there?
Wine is not my favorite but will do I suppose.
I am a fast/binge drinker and can easily get trashed on wine if am not careful.
Should I start drinking wine here to get used to the taste of it?
bizi

i don't think you should drink. what if you get out of control and miss the trip. what a waste it would be
bobby