Guess who's got the travel bug again?

A few months ago I was thinking that it's nice to not have to travel much, especially with Evan and with two evening classes at JHU...but lately I've been wanting to fly over to LHR! And UA isn't making it easy to sit still, either! I have three roundtrip worldwide upgrades with UA, to use before the end of the year, and plus, they're having a sale where tickets are right around $400 roundtrip nonstop from IAD!! I was looking at tickets at the end of February, here's a sampling: IAD-MCO is $300, IAD-JFK is $120 (just take the Chinatown bus), IAD-CHS is $250, IAD-DFW is $250, IAD-LAX (on JetBlue) is $240. So for about $100 more I could go see Big Ben/Parliament instead of Mickey/Disneyworld. Sheesh. That's what we get for a demand vice "pay by the mile" economy. Thank goodness, too. We bought tickets for Memorial Day weekend IAD-SEA for $190. Try an' beat that!!

Happy Dog Year, by the way! Andrew & Liew invited us over to their nice "retirement home" in RIC (We had passed by the place when we were lost, and Bev thought it looked like a nice retirement community, not knowing it was where we were actually trying to go!) They cooked up quite a storm for us, and had a great weekend together, yet again (or agane as Andrew would say)...this was our third consecutive weekend together! First time, PHL, second time, DCA, now RIC!

We're all better now! Evan was sick for a week, Bev got sick shortly after Evan, and I *almost* came down with it...fought it off with my Kirkland Signature Horse-Size Vitamin pills and four-five hours of sleep each night. Somehow, it worked!

Has anyone else noticed how bad movie critics are on deciding what movies are good and bad nowadays? Brokeback Mountain has rave reviews, but the Island and Fantastic Four got sucky reviews. Anyone who has seen the Island and Fantastic Four can vouch that they're pretty good ones, or at least definitely not as bad as movie critics say. Can't go wrong with Scarlett! (oops, that was out loud...) I have no desire to see Brokeback Mountain, though, even if everyone says it's good. The themes nowadays...who comes up with them??