a carrot in front of my cart....

ok, so.....i am going to vienna over spring break......by myself.....to spend time with my eldest child and to meet our extended austrian family.....and now that this decision to travel has been made.....i am amusing myself with numerous scenarios...such as flying into vienna then taking a night train to venice midweek and flying home from there......i have also priced similar variations with prague and berlin.....i would feel much more comfortable with the german=speaking options if my child were to travel with me.......i suppose i could navigate venice on my own with my trusty rick steves guidebook......i am also toying with the possibility of traveling with my youngest to london over fall break.....with a chunnel trip to paris before heading home.......she and i have been to paris, but one can never spend too much time in paris.....to pay for this second trip in a single year i am further toying with the notion of teaching a 6-week summer version of my eku health class......sadly, this would mean teaching 3 nights a week for 6 weeks.....yikes.......i am thinking of 5:30-7:30 mtw......it would still be light out when i got home so i could conceivably keep up with my gardening chores.......then again, by late june i would have already finished the mulching and would have planted all of the annuals....so i could just sit amongst my flowers when i got home and relax.......but i digress from my spring break plans.....figuring out travel schemes is one of life's greater pleasures....