A bright idea

Sometimes I should keep my thoughts to myself.  I saw that Air New Zealand had a sale for North and South America and had read something interesting about Argentina .  I casually mentioned this to B  as an idea for our next trip thinking wishfully that she would say no.  Imagine my surprise when she decided that is where we would go.  She had read about the Buenos Aires in an Air New Zealand magazine and rather liked the idea.  In the meantime I had read all about crime there and decided perhaps it was too far outside my comfort zone. 

Then the sale ran out and I thought I would be able to back out gracefully.  B found that in Australia the sale was still on and even more it was cheaper in NZ dollars to go from there.  I prevaricated and of course the sale came on again in NZ and before I knew it we had booked.  My several attempts at backing out had failed. 

So tomorrow we head to South America for two weeks.  A new and exciting adventure with me being more anxious than usual about it due to no Spanish language to speak of!  At least B has been doing Coffee Break Spanish so she will be our spokesperson! 

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