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Friend takes a mysterious trip

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The other day I got what seemed to be a somewhat cryptic message from one of our friends. He sent an email saying that he was off on a jet charter with his wife for the weekend – details to follow.

Now I know he travels for business quite often and sometimes he works a deal so that he can bring his wife along on some of the better trips. She shops while he works or attends meetings – now isn’t that the life?

So I’m assuming that it’s some kind of business trip since there’s no way he could afford a chartered jet on his own, but it must be something good since he said “details to follow”. Figures it’s a long weekend here in Canada and I’ll probably have to wait until Tuesday to find out where they went and what they did. Oh and even more importantly if they brought us back anything. LOL





Fondly remembering my Florida spring vacation

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Spring is a wonderful time to take a vacation isn’t it? I’ve been enjoying spring here in my own city, but I can’t help remembering some of the great spring vacations I’ve taken in the past. Actually now that I think of it, I think I’ve been to Florida in the spring more often than any other place in the world that I’ve vacationed.

The last time I went to Florida for spring vacation was several years ago. It was beautiful. The temperatures were in the 70’s to low 80’s so it was extremely comfortable.

I stayed with some friends in the Tampa and Orlando area. We visited both Tampa, Orlando and several other cities across the State. You see one of my nurse friends had traveled with me to Florida but she was staying in Boca Raton so we went there to spend a day with her and even drove down to Miami and visited the Miami Seaquarium. I guess we spent a lot of time traveling by car, but it was well worth it.

If you’re planning a spring vacation you should visit Trusted Tours & Attractions. They offer discounted tickets to the very best sightseeing tours. You’ll find discounted sight seeing tour tickets as well as some great information for 23 cities across America.

I actually wish I’d known about this companies website when I was looking for things to do in Orlando and other Florida cities. I could have even picked up some discount tickets for not only sight seeing tours but local attractions and I believe hotel rates as well.

If you expect to be going on vacation this spring or perhaps later in the year you might want to sign up for their newsletter. When you sign up for their newsletter before the end of April you’ll be entered in a contest where you could win a hand held system. Isn’t that great?

The newsletter is full of travel tips, interesting stories and links to travel blogs. I’m sure you’ll find it interesting and informative.

Visit the website, I’m sure you’ll find some great travel ideas!

Going on Vacation? This site has great flight and hotel deals

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You know how I keep saying that I need a vacation after this horrible winter we’ve had? Well, it was suggested that I take a look at an internet travel website called Cfares. So I did, and I was quite pleased with what I saw.

At Cfares you can find the best rates for airline tickets, hotels or combo fight and hotel packages.

We really enjoyed our trip to Las Vegas last Autumn and we’ve both said that we’d like to go back to Vegas again soon so we can have a better look around and do more things than we did on our last visit. So I decided to check flight prices to Vegas in April.

Cfares cross checks prices with major online travel agencies, wholesalers and airlines to find the best deals. When I did my search for flights to Las Vegas from Toronto I was pleased to see that I had at least a couple of hundred choices come up. The prices were quite reasonable too.

Actually the prices were much lower than the ones I was offered for my November trip so not being sure if there is a regular price difference for those traveling in April versus November, I also did a search for flight prices in November. As I thought there must be a difference because the November flight prices were about $50 to $75 higher than the April prices that I had just been offered.

One thing that I liked about the site is that once it comes up with flight prices for you many of the result tabs also allow you to check for flight and hotel combination packages too. So just by clicking a button you can see some great deals that include hotel stays as well.

If anything there are perhaps too many results! Of course I was just testing the site out as I don’t know when we might be able to take a few days or a weeks vacation. If I was seriously searching for the best deal I’m certain I’d be very pleased with the amount of flight deal results I got as I’d be searching the best prices.

You can also use the site to search for the best hotel prices too.

I’m certain that Chris and I will go on a trip within the next month or two so I’ll be bookmarking this site. If you’re planning a trip you should bookmark the site too, I’m sure it will come in handy!

Beautiful Chicago building

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In August of 2007 my husband and I drove to Chicago for a weekend visit with my brother-in-law. Given how long it takes to get to Chicago from Toronto we really only had one full day to see some of the great Chicago sites. I’d never been there before and I wanted to see as much as I could.

As we strolled downtown I noticed the Carson Pirie Scott department store.

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The store had the most beautiful ornate metal filigree that I think I’ve ever seen on a building. It was just a gorgeous site to see.

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Unfortunately the store was slated to close. I do hope that the city of Chicago managed to preserve this beautiful building.

I really enjoyed my visit to Chicago. I found that it’s quite a lot like Toronto and I hope to visit the great city again sometime soon, perhaps this summer. Of course if we drive that distance back and forth again I think we’ll either have to rent a vehicle or get a new car. I’m not sure ours will make that trip one more time! Oh that reminds me … I’ve to look up some rates for auto insurance online as I think it’s time to find better rates.

I need a few days in the sun

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After all this snow I need a break.

Last year when we were planning to go to Vegas I got a membership with a travel club that offers great last minute travel deals. I think I’m going to search through the latest deals and see if there are any short vacation packages that we can take advantage of in the next two or three weeks.

Chris almost always has Mondays off work so he’s pretty much got a long weekend each week. I think it would be great to go to one of the Caribbean islands, Mexico or even back to Vegas just for a long weekend. I know that’s a really short holiday, but I think I’d feel better if I went somewhere that’s warmer than here for a few days.

Yes it is finally starting to warm up here in Toronto and with any luck all that snow we got last weekend will begin to melt away soon, but I’ve had enough of all this cold and snow.

Do you ever get that way? You know, just wanting to get away for a few days of sun and fun?

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