Plane Tickets!
We just received the first portion of our Fulbright stipend, which means we finally had the money to purchase our plane tickets to/from Minsk! Jacque spent an enormous amount of time trying to find the cheapest tickets with the shortest travel time (also meeting the conditions of the Fly America Act) and after a little last minute drama (it seems like there is always something that goes wrong) we found a good deal and made the purchase this afternoon.
The final price: just over 11.5K for the whole family, round trip! Yikes! We will be flying United until we get to Frankfurt, Germany, at which point we will fly Lufthansa to Minsk. Travel time each way (including layovers) will be just over 18.5 hours, which sounds like a lot, but is actually much shorter than many of the itineraries Jacque was looking at (many were 30+ hours total travel time). So way to go Jacque!
We officially leave the morning of Thursday April 19 and will return home on Thursday August 15. On the way there we will be flying from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C., then to Frankfurt, Germany, then on to Minsk Belarus. We come back through Chicago instead of D.C.
Of course we are concerned about how the kids will do on such a long trip (and this will be their first time on a plane), but lots of people have given us good travel tips and the kids do long car rides really well (like when we drive to visit grandparents in California and Missouri) so we are cautiously optimistic!
We shall see how that part of our adventure goes! But for now, at least we have the tickets to get there and back!
We just received the first portion of our Fulbright stipend, which means we finally had the money to purchase our plane tickets to/from Minsk! Jacque spent an enormous amount of time trying to find the cheapest tickets with the shortest travel time (also meeting the conditions of the Fly America Act) and after a little last minute drama (it seems like there is always something that goes wrong) we found a good deal and made the purchase this afternoon.
The final price: just over 11.5K for the whole family, round trip! Yikes! We will be flying United until we get to Frankfurt, Germany, at which point we will fly Lufthansa to Minsk. Travel time each way (including layovers) will be just over 18.5 hours, which sounds like a lot, but is actually much shorter than many of the itineraries Jacque was looking at (many were 30+ hours total travel time). So way to go Jacque!
We officially leave the morning of Thursday April 19 and will return home on Thursday August 15. On the way there we will be flying from Salt Lake City to Washington D.C., then to Frankfurt, Germany, then on to Minsk Belarus. We come back through Chicago instead of D.C.
Of course we are concerned about how the kids will do on such a long trip (and this will be their first time on a plane), but lots of people have given us good travel tips and the kids do long car rides really well (like when we drive to visit grandparents in California and Missouri) so we are cautiously optimistic!
We shall see how that part of our adventure goes! But for now, at least we have the tickets to get there and back!
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