Vacation

About a week before hurricane Wilma decided to ravage the beaches of Mexico, J and I booked a trip to Cancun. We were planning on staying at a beautiful beachfront all inclusive resort. The only complaints travelers had about the resort was that the beach was slightly rocky, but the hotel accommodated that by allowing you to visit their sister hotel which had the pristine beach front. Personally I was not concerned, as I generally prefer the peace and quiet of the pool to being attacked by peddlers on the beach.

You would think there would be no question as to getting a refund after a natural disaster such as a hurricane, but that was not exactly the case. The hotel would be easy enough to cancel out of, but our plane tickets with Continental were going to be a problem. Continental kindly decided to waive all cancellation fees however, unless our flight was cancelled there was absolutely no possibility of a refund. We could have a credit, but we had already attempted to reschedule and fly elsewhere and it was far less than convenient. Seems that to go on a sun vacation we were going to need to spend the night overnight in the states somewhere because by the time we arrived in the states we would have missed the connecting flight.

Fortunately, after a few weeks of constant anger (instead of the desired excitement about vacation) the flight was cancelled and we are now awaiting our refund. It will take a few months (because doing something right away is definitely out of the questions) but we are happy that when the time comes to reschedule we will be able to start from square one again.

We have decided to postpone the big trip for another 6-8 months, weather and work depending. We have not however, cancelled the vacation altogether. Instead we are just going to take a couple days off work and head out to Galiano Island where we are going to rent a waterfront cabin, sit in a hot tub and relax.

I can't wait to get out into nature and have nothing to do but spend time with my man, read a book and relax. Our vacation is finally starting to come together.