Unexpected gifts

[rivka]

I got home last night to a message on the answering machine. Northwest Airlines wanted to let us know that our flight out of Memphis was overbooked, and they were offering us one free round-trip ticket each to anywhere in the continental U.S., if we were willing to change our plans.

Apparently they weren't getting many takers, because by the time I called, they'd upped the offer to free round-trip tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S., Alaska, or the Caribbean. Especially if we could fly back into DCA (Washington National) instead of Dulles. Given that we'd be taking the subway to the airport in any case, that made absolutely no difference to us, so...

For the cost of (a) shortening our trip to Memphis by eight hours, and (b) a somewhat longer trip (through Detroit rather than a direct flight), Misha and I now have the distinct pleasure of studying Northwest route maps and planning a suddenly-affordable winter vacation.

Jamaica. Antigua. Puerto Rico. Cozumel. Palm trees and beaches and electric-blue water and rum drinks and warm, warm sunshine. Oh, that's going to be good.

Comments

I'm being pedantic...

[(Anonymous)]

but that's not coconut milk inside a fresh coconut. That's coconut water. Coconut milk is when you grate the pulp and extract the liquid, forming a creamy, milk-like substance.

--Trinker
(thinking that the hacking service sounds really nice, though.)
(thinking as well that she's done her lifetime quota of being in tropical "paradise", and would rather go to a museum or a ski slope.)

Re: I'm being pedantic...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

You want to send me skiing?!

I thought you liked me.

Re: I'm being pedantic...

[(Anonymous)]

Unless you're planning on taking me instead of Misha, I wouldn't think that my preferences come into play for this vacation...

(There are no mosquitos on the ski slope.)

--Trinker, unreasonable.