I've already made reservations for a trip to visit Sarah and Kevin in the first week of April. I've wanted to visit them and see their new place (which is already different!), and now that they're having a baby, I wanted to go even more! So I decided to make the trip during the time when I should have my thesis well underway, but not yet in the stage of a lot of dialogue with my professor to get things tightened up and finalized.
It's nice that they live near Boston because I can get there relatively quickly and cheaply, at least compared to Iowa. Unfortunately I waited a little bit long to make reservations and so I have only one option to get there: the cost is good, travel time is OK, but I'll have to leave from Lisbon REALLY early. Maybe I can find somewhere to crash there the night before....
Since I was already going to be paying good money to cross the ocean, I thought I'd take advantage and tag on a couple of days to go see a friend of mine in Denver. It will be great to see her; I'm really excited about those days!
