February 7, 2011
You are receiving this email because:
1. You have received my vacation emails before and asked for it.
2. You haven't received my vacation emails before and asked for it.
3. You have received my vacation emails before and were too polite to ask to be deleted.
4. You haven't received my vacation emails before and are wondering who I am.
5. I know you or you know me and/or Laurie.
6. I found you business card in an airplane seat back pocket.
7. You always wanted to go to Australia but could only afford an internet subscription.
If you would like to continue to receive emails detailing (uh huh) our trek to New Zealand and Australia, do nothing. The flood has begun (and I'm not talking about the Queensland, Australia floods followed up by a typhoon.)
If you wish to unsubscribe (your inbox is already stuffed, you actually work for a living, you would rather watch paint dry) simply reply to his email with "mercy" in the subject line and If I have time I'll remove you from the list. Or you can use the "Delete" key over and over until we return to Florida.
. . . and so the story was told:
(Fill in the first missing seven words and win a prize!)
Why have we left Florida in the middle of the season? We had a cold December. My poor impatiens suffered. I remembered thinking last April "This winter was cold and miserable (by Florida standards), we should have gone to Australia." But we missed our chance.
With Laurie's ankle keeping her off her tennis team, this looked like our year. Since flying to Austrtaila isn't cheap, but I am, I thought we could take a cruise from Ft. Lauderdale to Auckland for an entire month for the same price as a miserable day in the air. Only problem was it is a 600 passenger ship crossing the Pacific ocean and we were concerned that we could end up miserable for a month instead of a day.
How about two Crystal cruises around New Zealand and Australia? Who wants 6 formal nights? Then, not enough land time. If we want to cruise, we can do it without flying to the other side of the world. So we're flying both ways, taking a small group land tour in New Zealand for three weeks and then independently touring Australia.
The plan:
West Palm to Atlanta (where we are now), Atlanta to Los Angeles, change planes then on to Sydney, Australia. But we really need to go to Auckland, New Zealand first. After the 14 hour LA to Sydney run, we plan to pick up our checked bags, proceed through Immigration and Customs, re-check the bags on Air New Zealand, proceed through security to freshen up in either the Air New Zealand or Virgin lounges (latter sounds like more fun), taxi to the city for a pre-paid Opera House tour followed by a pre-paid Harbour cruise, lunch, then back to the airport to catch our flight to Auckland. I'm exhausted already.
I must say, Delta has upgraded the snacks in their lounge. Fresh veggies and Hummus. Or pretzel sticks and Nutella or chocolate drizzled popcorn. Guess who's eating what? We may just stay here instead.
Stay tuned.
Regards,
Steve & Laurie
PS: You may forward this email to anyone you particularly want to annoy. If you really want to bother them, send me their email address and I'll put them on my permanent list.
Will you be flying First Class, Coach or Cargo?
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