I almost dropped around $350 on a flight this week but ended up dodging that bullet, in a way... We're going to WDW for a long weekend at the end of the month, and I was thinking of tagging on a visit to my grandpa in Phoenix. I was going to go DEN>PHX>MCO or vice versa, but it wasn't the best time for him. Golf tournaments are very important
Instead I'll look at going over a weekend in February. I was surprised how cheap it is to fly between Denver and Phoenix. Even at a week out, you could get a ticket for $40-$50 one way (it was the PHX>MCO that was killing me). Now it should be more like $90 roundtrip when I figure out when I'm going.
In other news, our DVC rental for our honeymoon came through yesterday. I'm hoping it will code as travel on my credit card because I have around $500 in points to use. If it doesn't it's not the end of the world, but I'm having trouble finding another place to use that $500 - I'd say room charges, but I've already picked up a good chunk of our dining budget via discounted Disney gift cards... We're doing a 3 night cruise, if I use it to pay on board charges that should code as travel? We're first-time cruisers lol. Otherwise, I
guess we could save it for our next vacation... How awful - it would be just terrible if we used it towards, say, a quick/random WDW trip sometime in the next year...
Especially as we got APs due to going this month and then for 12 days in September...
Overall, our budget is pretty on track for the month except for two places - eating out
and DF's gas budget. We uh, started strong in the month eating out, due to a sick puppy... She had an infected uterus and had to have it removed. We didn't have to pay that surgery bill since it is technically DF's parents' dog, but we picked up dinner the first two nights when she needed to be watched to first, make sure she made it, and second, to make sure she wasn't leaping over the back of the couch. Dogs
lol. Friday is our 5th dating anniversary, and we always go to Olive Garden, which is where we went on our first date (and to Beauty and the Beast in 3D
). We have a gift card from Christmas, but it'll probably eat up most of the rest of the eating out budget. So my goal is to eat in the rest of the nights until next Friday when we leave for WDW. We're going to have to bump up DF's gas budget, because gas prices have gone up a little here and he works in sales, and he's got some things going he has to go by and check on
He was about 90% through his amount after he filled up on the 17th. Hopefully, it goes well for him and he'll get paid back in commissions