I haven’t left the country in two years and my feet are most certainly getting itchy. So yesterday I bought two tickets to Japan. Well, “bought” is perhaps not quite the right word, since what I actually did is clean out my frequent flier account. And I must say: frequent flier miles on Continental are awesome! A few clicks and 120,000 miles later, and Jose and I each have a non-stop ticket to Tokyo.
We are scheduled to go at the beginning of November. And unfortunately I have to say “scheduled” because there’s a chance we’ll have to cancel the trip and redeposit all those miles back into my account. I’ve always said that I’d never allow the space shuttle launch schedule to get in the way of my vacation plans, but that’s a hard promise to keep. There may be a mission right when we want to be in Japan. If there is, it will probably be Jose’s first mission as lead Rendezvous GPO. Thus we’d have to reschedule our trip again (we’ve already put it off twice).
But for now, I’m trying not to think about that. Because this is the first time of the many times we’ve talked about buying tickets that we’ve actually gone through with it. As of now, I’m going to Japan!
Very exciting.
awesome!! I hope you get to go. Tokyo is AWESOME!!!
I hope it works out! You did the right thing – sometimes you just have to make plans and see if they work out.
I’d cry over using 120,000 miles. Although I’ve heard that they’re bumping the minimum to 35,000 now. From time to time, I’ve been able to catch a 20,000-mile award. That’s how Waverly went with me to Alpharetta last March (but I did use a 25,000-mile award for her to go to NYC/CT with me in October).
Cry in a bad way over using the miles? To me, 120,000 miles for two round-trip tickets to Tokyo was an incredible deal. I’d been saving my miles for a big trip anyway, and using those miles saved a total of $2500 that Jose and I would have spent on the 2 tickets otherwise.
I actually still had 20,000 miles left. Just enough for a trip to Atlanta in April for my friend’s wedding… 🙂