mcollinknight

I JUST BOOKED MY FLIGHT TO DEEEEEEEE CEEEEEEEEEEE!

And you know what this means.

After a zillion different changes in travel plans (train? plane? automobile? flying slingshot monkey?), months spent convincing the parentals (repeat after me: scary internet people are not always scary), and countless exclamation points flying in the Rahmulans Spam Thread, I have actually manned up, whipped out my Aeroplan card, and booked a flight to Washington to visit monsieur_poneypants!

Last night I was roughly 30 seconds away from cancelling the whole damn thing and going up to my cottage for the weekend instead, since Amtrak was going to take 15000 hours and American Airlines was trying to make me pay $900 ($900!!! YEAUGH!) while Virgin was telling me I should just fly to Aruba instead. However, I did have frequent flier points to redeem, and so I now have a free** flight there and back XD XD XD

So instead I shall have a four-day weekend full of cheesecake from Chicago, eating at Rasika and *~*"running into"*~* Rahm, museums, and seeing Second City shows, all the while quote-swapping with Jenn and geeking out over the fact that I am in WASHINGTON, with OBAMA and ROMAN BUILDINGS (stupid Ottawa and its stupid Gothic architecture. I need COLUMNS in my life of political fannery) and silly American things like CHEESE IN A SPRAY CAN (or, since I shall be spending the weekend with Mlle Anderson herself, whipped cream in a spray can).

I am planning on coming back with a multitude of postcards for the Ladies of Spam (*~*you know who you are*~*) and an unholy stash of Diet Peach Snapple and Americone Dream (wtf Canada for not selling them). Do you think customs will let me smuggle ice cream into an airplane? Are these questions I'm allowed to be asking?

**for a given definition of the word 'free.' Read: $150 in stupid airline fees. I hate beaurocracy.

I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAIT :D :D :D