I think it is safe to say that our new year’s resolution is not to spend less money. That’s not to say that we really have made any resolutions. I keep mentioning putting a treadmill in the spare room but Bill doesn’t even react to the idea… when I say it it’s as if I’ve said nothing at all.
So, back to the spending.
We’ve just returned from the trip to Colmar. We didn’t tally what we spent.
We’ve just booked our hotel for Rome. The Albergo del Senato. (http://www.albergodelsenato.it) Great location. Looks fantastic. Rave reviews on tripadvisor.com (which steered us to the ideal hotel in Honolulu last summer) Cheap? Hardly. But that’s ok. We got the plane tickets cheap. Ok, pretty cheap. Add a couple of tours and lots of big plates of pasta accompanied by equally big glasses of red wine and, well, I’m not going to tally that up, either.
Bill has found a train trip he wants to take. It’s the Glacier Express through Switzerland. Add that to the growing to-do (and to-spend) list.
Then today, Bill said he thinks maybe we should take Kaitlyn to Disneyland Paris for her birthday. That would be fun. And how crowded could it be in January? We went to Disneyworld one January for Bill’s birthday and walked onto every ride. (Mind you, that was back when I was a castmember enjoying lovely discounts at the hotels and restaurants… not to mention having passes to the park) So while Kaitlyn napped, I jumped onto my friend the world wide web and checked it out. There are plenty of hotels there. Let’s see… there’s the Cinderella suite in the Disneyland Hotel…. a cool 2000 or so a night. A NIGHT! I knew I wasn’t going to be able to afford that, but I had no idea that one actually needs a fairy godmother or a prince to pay for it. So I tried more normal rooms and got prices that are total for two nights, park passes and breakfast (not in that order) At the a regular room there… 900 .. nope…. the NY Hotel complete with a replica of the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center (and I do like to skate)… 800 …. Yacht Club like the one where we stayed on our honeymoon…. 700 … better… the lodge that might have some Chip and Dale kind of things that Kaitlyn would like 620 . That’s the cheapest I can get, the budget hotels are booked. And I refuse to stay at the Davey Crocket glorified campsite. We can take the TGV (high speed train) from Grenoble to the stop at Disneyland. 400 . Kaitlyn can get a special Mickey Mouse birthday cake. Although the park is only open till 8pm… is it worth it? I like vacations better when I don’t add them up.