After booking flights through United, Kay at TOL gave us a tip of a travel agency in New Jersey that was able to get better rates for another adoptive family, so we contacted them by email for a quote on flights. With two hours to go, before we missed the 24 hour cancellation window on our non-refundable tickets, we got a better deal. Save $1995, fly LOT Polish Air through Warsaw, and stay an extra day. We decided that the $60 a day for the apartment was insignificant compared to the savings. We now fly out of Chicago on Saturday, December 12 and return Sunday, December 20. Now the only concern is that we could not confirm seats together for the flight from Chicago to Warsaw. We will need to arrive really early at the airport to see if we can get any of the seats the airline reserves.
At school today, I found out who will be my substitute, made an information packet for her, and sent home some of the textbooks today. I drafted a letter to send to parents to let them know that I will not be finishing the year with their children. Mr. T. will look it over tomorrow and we will mail it out. Mark has been arranging vacation and FMLA, we finally bought shoes today, and we put up the Christmas tree with the boys.
We saw in the Sofia News that a 50 ft. living Christmas tree is being lighted with 800 meters of lights in front of the Rila Hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria on December 1. They are having a European style festival called "Koledariya 2009" with cookies, warmed wine, and puppet shows for the kids. Even though we will miss the festival, we printed off the information for our trip. It would be fun to take Grace to see the tree one evening if the weather is nice during our visit. Maybe seeing the lighted tree there would make the one in our living room less confusing, too.
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