“MICHAEL!!!! OH MY GOSH WE HAVE TO GO TO FIJI!!!!” “What?” He asks.
“Costco Travel is having this deal and it’s to Fiji and it’s only $1,400 per person and you get airfare, hotel, transfers, AND all your meals for five days you have no idea how cheap this is this is incredibly cheap we have to go we have to take advantage of this we have to go we have to go!!!”
He laughs, then calmly asks me how we’d be able to take the time off to which I flippantly reply that we could make it work and this deal is really just too good to pass up. He pauses, then says, “Okay. Let’s do it. We’ll go for our first anniversary.”
“Really?” I ask. “REALLY?! REALLY?!?!?!” I start screaming. “OH MY GOSH REALLY?!?! WE CAN GO?!?! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"
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So that’s how the conversation started. I know I know, I’ve already been to Fiji. But really, how can you pass up a deal like that?
Actually, we’re not going.
As much as it really is an incredible deal, after talking it over Michael and I have decided to forgo any major trips until next spring, which is when we’d like to plan a trip to Saudi Arabia (to visit his parents) and Europe (to visit Europe).
Still, I constantly thirst for adventure overseas, or anywhere for that matter. A longing sigh escapes me as I even think about traveling someplace new. My eyes glaze over and the drool begins to flow as I browse through newspaper travel sections. By God’s grace I’ve been blessed to travel a lot already in my almost 24 years, but I’ve still got a huge list of places I want to go.
I just love going places.
"One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands."
-Sir Richard Francis Burton
