In a year that will be, and so far has been, full of changes for Totem and I (college graduation, "permanent" job, wedding, house/appartment after wedding, living with parents before wedding, etc...), something else has gone awry... But this time, even though it is a negative thing, it looks like it is for the better...

Free is not always good... Our "free" trip we won for our honeymoon. It is very quickly going downhill and gaining speed. First of all, we want to go relatively soon after our wedding (sometime that week). The company that is doing the promotion cannot tell us anything about the trip (such as a confimation that we would actually be going on it) until 45 days before. That means if all goes well, we'd have to book flights and land travel and everything else we would need in about a month before we got there... Totem's Mom is a travel agent and said that was BS (we agreed). So I called them to be sure. I got a woman who was VERY mean and didn't give a $hit whether or not we wanted more days. "It was free so deal with it" was the attitude I got...

So I held my tongue and went along with it. I sent in the reservation card and asked for the three weeks after our wedding. We picked the week of, the following week, and the week after that. Yesterday, I got another letter from them in the mail that sounded even worse than the a$$hat on the phone. "You did not follow the terms of our agreement. This is the last letter you will receive from us. Please fill out the proper dates below. We will not contact you again in the even that you fail to follow our directions." Nice. BTW, they never told us we HAD to pick dates that were 30 days apart. They just suggested it.

Now Totem and I are looking at the calendar... We've got the week after our wedding planned. Good. But then Totem goes back to school... So the other two weeks we have been forced to pick, to not mess up her schooling that much, was Thanksgiving Week, and New Years week... We just got a whole lot more frustrated...

We went back to the professional (Totem's Mom :)) and asked what we should do. She suggested getting our deposit back. (We are both starting to feel that this is much more than it is worth.) Totem's Mom also keeps reminding us that we only get married once. We don't want to screw everything up, not to mention somethign we're going to remember for the rest of our lives, on a "free" trip... I think I'll be calling for my deposit in the next day or two...

Now, on the good side of things. She did do some looking for us. Totem's Mom was able to find a bunch of cruises that we would like. Price wasn't bad, itenery (sp) was OK. But it still didn't seem like there was much to do. Then she suggested Las Vegas. Las Vegas. More to do and "cheaper" than a cruise (for the cruises, the airfare was almost half the cost of the cruise).

But I didn't know that there was anything else to do except gambling and strip joints until she told me to check ou their website: http://www.lasvegas.com

So that's what I am looking at right now. Las Vegas is sounding much (MUCH) more attractive than our free vacation, or a cruise, at the moment. Even if we have to pay for it. Totem and I are not gamblers, and after readin that website, I was sold...

Plus there is one EXTREMELY HUGE selling point for me... Three words...

BLUE...
MAN...
GROUP...

Did I mention that it won't break the bank either??? ::does jittery excited sitting in chair dance::