Wednesday, February 22, 2006

We're going to Paris!

Sounds exciting doesn't it? Well yesturday Jacqui and I booked our plane ticket with Air Canada to go to Paris. We'll leave on May 22nd (2 days after the wedding) and we'll come back on the 30th. It's going to be very exciting. We were thinking that we would go in October but when Jacqui saw this deal we thought it was worth it for a few reasons:
1: It saves us over $1000 bucks on airfare
2: We don't have jobs set up after school and they probally won't be there on the day after graduation so we should go.
3: It ensures that we don't put off our honeymoon.
4: We don't have to go on a "mini-honeymoon" then take the real one in October.
5: The jobs we get will be happy that we don't need the time off in October
6: The hotel looked like they had a cheeper rate for this time of year
7: Wedding money could be spent on the trip (if Jacqui goes for it too) LOL!

The Trip there is a real milk run though. Saskatoon to Toronto... wait for a while...Toronto to Monteral...Wait for a little while... Monteral to Paris. Reverse that on the way home and it makes for a 24 hour trip each way.

We've booked the Hotel now. We're staying at the Hotel Saint Honore which is only a very short distance from the Louve. and is central to a lot of attractions and other things we want to do. Lucked out on the rate of about $100 bucks a night.

The picture looks like a nice little hotel. The insides looked nice and the reviews were good.


Now we're looking at airport transfers to and from the hotel and we're looking at a river tour and the hours and costs of the attractions.

Closer to home we're going to try to work more at the University to have extra cash as more money is always a good thing. I wanted to save up and buy myself a digital camera but I don't think I'll get one now unless it is a wedding present. So if a group of people are looking at getting me something I could use a nice digital camera. (I won't hold my breath)

More on the trip to come.

3 comments:

Zack said...

Damn now I'll have to take it back as it would be too obvious of a gift now. O well.

Good work on the cheaper rate sounds like everything is going to work out better.

Anonymous said...

James.... it's nice and all that the hotel is close to nice places and museums and stuff but buddy... it's your HONEYMOON... in otherwords the only thing your supposed to see is the inside of your hotel room, a whole lot of one another and the Major sites ie the Eifel Tower.. especailly if you can se them from the hotel room....*wink wink*..

-Kerri

Jacqui and James said...

It's Paris, Kerri...we'll likely never be there again. We have the rest of our lives to spend a week in a hotel room!!! James is going to put on his walking shoes and look at museums until he can't stand it anymore!