cooler...

much more comfortable. glad to be in the 80° range again... and it looks like the monsoon flow is dipping down to give us some extra heat relief...which means good sleeping weather.

actually got through our v-ball league tonight without much rain. we weren't sure if we were going to get to play, it looked so threatening when we got to the park. lucky for us, there was a little sprinkling and that's it. sure got muggy though. good thing Barb brought a six pack; made us forget ALL about the humidity and sweat ;)

results were better too. this week, we won all six games. hopefully, we'll play more steadily in the coming weeks. team sports are all about motivation and chemistry, right? 'course, cheating is good too...but not looked very highly upon, eh?

lessee here...what else?

just finished getting mileage credit for our trip to Spain. now, that's not something we just pooh pooh. that's 11,000 miles we're talking about. considering most frequent flyer mileage programs require 20K-25K miles for a free domestic ticket, it's freakin' important to make sure you got credited.

speaking of mileage programs, i thought it would be a good idea to give my sister, Susie, and her fiancee, Andy, a couple tix to a warm destination (Cancún, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico) for their honeymoon. susie was saying, "we're kinda short for a 'real' honeymoon, so we thought we might spend a long weekend in Taos."

huh? hell no! people who do the fakey honeymoon thing don't end up going on a 'real' one for many more years because they start putting it off, eventually getting moved down on the 'priority list.' you guys gotta go now.

personally, i'd opt for mexico. of course, after traveling through 17 of its states, you might call me biased ;) still, i believe it's a better choice for the financially strapped because the Mexican Peso, although having rebounded over the last 5 years, is still a much better buy than Hawaii or San Juan, PR. a budget of $70-$80/day (per person) at Mexican beach destinations will get you pretty much everything you need, unless you drink like a fish or go golfing or club hopping every day. $70-80 a day in the other island paradises would be enough to just scrape by.

mexico is still a very cheap destination. in larger cities (inland), i could easily get by on $40-$50 a day.

btw, i failed to mention that we'd use our mileage to get their tix. when you redeem frequent flyer miles for a free ticket, you just pay tax...meaning $59 for Mexico and $10 for the other two destinations. a deal for us, considering airfares to those three places in late september and all of october average $415-$620; we all benefit in the end. they wouldn't have to pay for their honeymoon travel while we get a break on the prices.

and if they still insist on going 'another time,' we may just be greedy and go ourselves...heh.