Planning Travel

After getting the news Monday evening that its finally time to travel, I spent most of my free time Tuesday booking out flights and trying to figure out where to stay. I thought I had the whole hotel thing decided and it would be easy to get those arrangements made. Wrong!

When I called the hotel where I had been planning to stay, the lady must have either a) been doing the exchange rate incorrectly or b) seriously overcharging me for a room. For a suite with two queen beds, she quoted me 15,000 NTD, which is almost $8500! When I asked her if this was for the entire time we would be there, she said no, that it was for each night! Yeah, right! Like that's ever going to happen! Obviously, I think there was something amiss, but we won't be staying there.

We will be leaving on Wednesday, Nov. 7 in the evening and arrive in Seattle. There, we will sit around the airport for about 6 hours and leave for Taiwan at 1:30 am on the 8th. We will arrive at 5:30 am on Friday, Nov. 9. I wanted to be able to pick Holly up that day, but we will have to wait until Monday or maybe even Tuesday. The AIT appointment will be Wednesday, Nov. 14 and we will fly out of Taipei on Friday, Nov. 16 at 11:00 pm. We will arrive in Seattle at 5:30 pm on Friday and catch our final flight home at about 8:00 and land in Spokane a little after 9:00 pm. We should get to the house about 11:00 pm.

Having the extra days in Taiwan will at least give us some additional time to sight see and enjoy Taipei. I am guessing that sight seeing with a baby isn't nearly as easy, fun, or practical as without one, so learning more about Holly's birth country and culture will be a good thing to do until we can go pick her up.

I am glad to have the arrangements made and can now focus on getting everything together and organized before we leave. I'm guessing it could be the last time my life is organized for a very long time!