Rings and Things

This is the beginning of our latest vacation. It will include visits to the following places:
  • New York City
  • London
  • Eastern Europe
This all started back in December. Typically vacations fall into our laps with cheap air fares. ($500 tickets to Peru, $200 vacations to Vegas, $300 to Hawaii, etc) This year, we weren't seeing anything interesting so we decided to plan one ourselves.

Now, we struggled and struggled trying to figure out where to go... #firstworldproblems Offhandedly, Jen said "Let's take Abbey (my niece) to London for the Olympics, you know I love London and she loves swimming". After getting permission from my brother and sister-in-law, we started looking at tickets. We waffled, and because we were closing on a house we decided to put it off.

We checked the ticketing site over the next couple months, and everything was consistently sold out that we had an interest in. In February however, more tickets became available. We acquired tickets over the next couple months for several events, including 3 swimming events, ladies gymnastics, and ladies beach volleyball.

On Sunday, March 4th, we were down in Columbus for Abbey's Confirmation. We staged telling her about the event in the form of a 20 questions game. We had "clues" and "hints" to help her along. The "hints" were in the form of little wrapped presents (travel bottles, a small US flag, etc) and they each had a tag with a "ring" on them (olympic colored, of course). She guessed it with four questions to spare. Needless to say, the look on her face was priceless.