[dlhall]

For those of you who will be traveling in the next year, don't forget to sign up for any and all travel reward programs that you can ie: frequent flyer miles. We totally missed out on the two trips we took for my dd's adoption; it never even crossed our minds as we are not big travelers normally. For my son's adoption, we signed up with Delta's Skymiles program and earned enough points for 3 round trip tickets in the US; I used them to take the kids to Phoenix in March.

We also signed up for Marriott Rewards program, and I just now remembered we have a lot of points from all our stays in Russia. I'm in the process of trying to book a weekend getaway for my hubby and I. I'm so excited to be able to get away; we're only going to go to a town about an hours drive from us and since our points are covering the cost of the hotel, we're going to stay somewhere fancy (something I'm too cheap to pay for on my own). So as I'm planning my fun weekend away, I thought I'd send out a reminder to sign up for the plans!

Liz