Just Simply Holly

I’m sitting here this morning watching the news and listening to all the reports about the insane gas prices and how those prices are going to affect travel over Memorial Day weekend. It’s so sad to think about how bad gas prices are going to affect peoples travel plans this summer! Even airlines are raising flight prices to reflect the never ending raise in the cost of fuel!

They had a person on the news segment giving tips about how you can still travel over the summer, but that you really need to shop around and find the best travel deals possible rather than just packing things up and going. They said that by planning in advance, even by just a week or two, you can actually end up saving yourself several hundred dollars. They also said that many airlines are going to offer substantial savings for the last minute travelers so that they can fill the seats on a plane rather than flying it with empty seats because each empty seat on a plane in flight actually costs the airline money.

I’m not sure what we’re going to be doing this summer as far as travel, other than my trip that’s coming up in a few days and the kids spending the month of July with their sister on the East coast. The month prior to the kids leaving will be spent getting them ready to go and when they get back it will be time to kick in and get them ready for the next school year. Hopefully we can fit some sort of small family outing in with them and I’m also hoping that my husband and I can get away for a weekend while they are gone!

OK, so school is out now for both of the kids and for me. None of us go back until late August. So my thought is that now would be the perfect time for the four of us to take a summer holiday. We all need one, it has been a rough year and a busy year. While checking out different holiday packages I found out that you can take REALLY cheap holidays in Mexico! And yes, I do mean cheap!

The thought of lying on a beach is so much more appealing than lying in this bed with my feet propped up! So maybe while I’m laying here I’ll plan out a great Mexico holiday and tell my husband that a Mexico holiday would make an AWESOME birthday gift. You think he’d fall for it?