If you recall my recent passport acquisition exploits, you might have wondered to yourself, however briefly, what the heck does Shawn need with a passport?
At the time it was mostly a just-in-case kind of thing, but now it's official.
You see, my high school alumni office has put together a nice little trip to Italy for what seems to be a decent price (everyone tells me it is anyway). I toiled about going for some time, but have since turned in my registration fee, so it's as official as it gets. I held off on mentioning it because they were waiting to get the minimum number of people before committing to the trip, which they have now done, so it's pretty much a done deal, aside from dishing out some cash, of course.
I feel very guilty about spending that kind of money on myself, as I don't usually do that. Aside from the necessities (house, car, computer, major appliances), I've never spent more than a few hundred dollars on myself, much less a few thousand. I don't have a big screen TV, or riding lawn mower, or a motorcycle... I just don't splurge like that generally (not that I don't drool over that stuff and heavily desire having it). Until now. I just hope the kids don't flip out that they don't get to go, because spending ten grand for the three of us to go is just not practical much less possible.
The justification for spending the money is that, when the kids are grown, I plan to do a good deal of international traveling... you know, visit all the cool European places, Australia of course, hopeful my country of birth... so it seemed like a good idea to get a "structured start" to my international adventures by going on semi-guided trip such as this. And what better place to cut my traveling teeth than Rome?
Now, if I could only get one of my high school buddies to pony up, it could truly be an adventure... If I can't, then I'll have to dish out a little extra money for the single-occupancy rate, not to mention the fact that it will be a slightly less memorable trip on my own. Come ON guys!
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