2003-07-25 6:24 p.m.

My December vacation home to visit the family is all official now. Jacqui approved the time off; non-stop flight from LAX to CLT & back the same way is booked via Dividend Miles (meaning Free - the best kind of flight); Rental car reservation made. Yay me. And I know LAX is 2 hours from me and SAN is about 20 minutes, but I can leave my car the Residence Inn in Santa Clarita and David said he'd give me a ride to the airport on Sat the 6th. Hopefully he'll be able to pick me up on Wednesday the 16th since I get in before he usually has to go to work, but we can figure all that out in December. But LAX was the only way to get non-stops. And the 2 hour drive will equal out to the same amount of time it usually takes to land, wait, board new plane & take off again. Non-stop is much preferred.

I'm still undecided about KY & Pella. There's so much here in California I haven't done & I have seen RP 13 times. I'm starting to lean back towards waiting for them to do a show in Cali. It's like do I do one BIG Pella weekend in KY or a lot of little weekends around here. There's Red Elvises to be seen again, Nickel Creek is going to be in LA and San Diego I think in Sept, I'm jonesin for a Vegas trip, I really want to go to Sea World - and when it gets cooler the Wild Animal Park.....