One More Week!

The title says it all, and how exciting! The last month has really flown by, and a day already post-Cinco de Mayo, I have only one more week until my last final and the official start of summer! In my last post I had thought that my summer would begin on May 14th, but as that last final has been changed into a take-home final, my summer will instead begin a full 24 hours earlier on May 13th, one week from today.

Otherwise, Summer Plans v2.0 looks pretty similar to v1.0... the Vegas trip has been booked since before my last update, and remains the same.

My next trip, to see the Space Shuttle Launch, remains scheduled the same, which is really good news. In fact, the Shuttle rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building (the 4th-largest building in the world by volume) to Launch Pad 39A, where it is still scheduled to launch on May 31st at 5:01:50PM ET. Today the astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a full 3-day rehearsal for the launch later this month. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

My dates for the Boston trip also remain the same and if they change, will only change by 1 or 2 days from the June 12th beginning of the trip. My ticket is not booked yet but should be within the next couple of weeks. July 17th will definitely be the day I return to Chicago, because...

...the next trip to Winnipeg and Great Bear Lake has already been booked, and the first flight (of the several that it takes to actually get to Great Bear Lake Lodge) leaves Chicago on the morning of July 18th. Needless to say, I'll need to get home in order to quickly switch out my clothes and things from one suitcase to the next, as some things I'll be taking with me on both trips, and others, such as the fishing gear, will be on the Canada trip only. The morning of the 27th of July we return back to Chicago, and from that morning until August 2nd will be my longest stay at home for the summer. And by at home, I mean between Chicago and Madison, as I'll need to clean out almost everything from my place there, given that our lease ends in the middle of August and we are not staying where we currently are.

The August 2-15th trip to Stanford in the Bay Area has not yet been booked, but should be booked at the same time as the Harvard/Boston trip within the next few weeks, and the dates should stay the same on that one too.

And there's a whole summer for you! I'll end up splitting the rest of my summer time between Madison and Chicago, moving things from our place now to our new one in Madison, and spending time with family and friends in Chicago too. Though, who knows, maybe I'll end up taking another trip anyway!