Thursday

We were making plans to go to Las Vegas for a week at the end of April. We were there, we loved it so why not to go back when there is a chance? We made the arrangements a while back except that we didn't buy the plane tickets because the prices were high then and we were waiting for them to go down.

Last night we decided not to wait any further so started to check out the possibilities. It was very surprising to see how few planes fly direct from New York to Las Vegas. On most of the flights a change is necessary. Some stops are along the way but some are ridiculously out of the way. We checked and checked for seemingly forever.

Finally we found a reasonable flight with acceptable arrival and departure times and started making the arrangements. When we were finally done and pressed the submit button a message came back that the airline(Delta) was very sorry but the trip at this price was just sold out. You can imagine our annoyance at this but there was nothing else to do but start again.

Finally we found a reasonably priced flight that will fly through Minneapolis-St. Paul. It's a little detour but the good thing is that on one side of the plane there are only two seats in a row.

Now, my question is that why there are direct flights from Minneapolis to Las Vegas and not from New York?

Something else.

Tonight my wife made a fantastic Hungarian dinner. A sour egg soup with poached egg in it and stuffed pepper for main course. Can't begin to tell how good it was. The stuffed pepper was great but it will be even better tomorrow or the day after. It is always like that.