Off on a wing and a prayer!

You may notice the old blog has a spruced up appearance, because very soon, we will be winging our way to Europe! We leave on Tuesday evening and are SO excited. Our travel partners (and guest bloggers, though they don't know it yet ;-)) are Steve and Darla Schrock. [The first picture is us trying to find cheap plane tickets, and the second is Steve and Darla dressed as each other for Halloween :-).]


Half the fun is waiting and planning :-) We decided that even though we'd definitely take a free trip to Europe leaving the next day, it would still be a little disappointing, because you wouldn't have the waiting excitement :-) While this is not an ideal time to be leaving the country (weak dollar, I'm job hunting, Darla and I are/were students, etc.), we had been talking about taking this trip for EVER. So, we decided last summer that now is the time. If we don't do it now, who knows how many other reasons we'll come up with for not going.

So, after much planning (through all things Rick Steves -public radio/TV travel guru), discussion, and homemade ice cream, we are getting the final details ready for our adventure. One of those details includes letting our friends and family know they can follow our journey through Europe with 1) the itinerary below, 2) this blog (where I'm thinking we'll rotate who posts each day), and 3) our pictures on Steve's Picasa album. [You will need to have a free Google OR Gmail account to view them though... Sorry.] We'll likely post 1 or 2 photo highlights from the day on the blog as well.

So here we go!

Schrock-Shetler European Sampler Platter Itinerary

July 13 (Tues) - Depart PHX at 7:25 PM, British Air
July 14 (Wed) - Arrive London 1:10 pm local
July 15 (Thurs) - London
July 16 (Fri) - London-->Paris
July 17 (Sat) - Paris
July 18 (Sun) - Paris-->Interlaken, Switzerland-->Gimmelwald, Switzerland
July 19 (Mon) - Gimmelwald, Switzerland
July 20 (Tues) - Gimmelwald, Switzerland
July 21 (Wed) -Gimmelwald, Switzerland-->Interlaken, Switzerland-->Venice
July 22 (Thurs) - Venice
July 23 (Fri) - Venice
July 24 (Sat) - Venice-->Barcelona
July 25 (Sun) - Barcelona
July 26 (Mon) - Barcelona
July 27 (Tues) - Depart Barcelona 11AM, British Air Flight 479 to London. Depart London 2:35 PM on British Air 289, arrive at PHX 5:10 PM.