Monday, January 15, 2007

No News is No News

No news, besides that I looked at the prices of flights again, and they went up. We're trying to decide if we should risk buying the cheaper tickets that you can change for a fee. If we do this and fly out of New York, we would be able to change the tickets 6 times before the price was the same as the fully changable ticket.

International adoption is not for the cheap.

Meanwhile, it's getting colder in Aktobe, and it's snowing today. The weather is getting worse. Maybe that's a sign we'll be traveling soon. We never travel under ideal conditions. In fact, when we plan a major trip, our close friends hunker down and wait for some disaster, whether it's a hurricane in the area we plan to be, or travel through (2002, 2003, 2005), a natural disaster like a wild fire that wipes out half of the town we're set to visit (2000), outbreaks of a dangerous disease where we're going (1997), violent anti-American demonstrations (1999), or terror attacks (2001). We didn't travel in 1998, and our trip to China in 2005 went smoothly.

So with the weather getting colder and snowier in the place we're headed, and the world situation getting even touchier, I'm sure we'll be leaving soon.

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