I don't know about leaving the everyday world and traveling in my mind to a fanciful and pleasantly unreal world as Astrodienst seemed to think I *should* have been doing but what I did do was spend five hours trying to make reservations for my now solo trip to Europe in April.
The existing reservation - me flying to Heathrow using air miles with JDG doing the same and our meeting up at Heathrow within an hour - was obviously out. The timing was never ideal as we'd have arrived two days before Soldiering On was due to open, I'd have been jet-lagged at the first rehearsal I went to, probably still jet-lagged at dress rehearsal and still out of it by opening night, so looking on the bright side, it's a good job that one went down the drain.
The not so good job is I now have to shell out moolah and pay for the flight, as that date was based on John's coming with me, staying through the one week run, and then both of us going to Spain to be tourists for a week or so before arriving at my sister's house for Easter and then coming back to the U.S.
It's not as though I couldn't have kept the original reservation. The problems, the work-arounds, involve our *plan* to have stayed at my niece's house in London right before she left for Spain with her twin daughters to spend the Easter holidays with her parents, and then arrive at my sister's house right before my niece and children left to go back to the UK.
I'm writing this three days after the event and my head is already beginning to spin attempting to write this down so it makes some kind of sense. Suffice it to say it's a good thing I bought that quad-ruled pad because I used about half of it attempting to figure all of this out, at one point having four different reservations on hold with American and then trying to make another one on one of the days I already had one, at which point I got a polite little pop-up window saying I appeared to already have a duplicate reservation of what I was trying to make and.....
And? Time to get up and get ready for sing-along with Star Child at the library. Much more important.
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