from now on, i refuse to get excited about anything. i'm so tired of being disappointed. tried to go to london last night. paid for a hotel room through priceline, got really excited about seeing the london bridge, westminster abby, buckingham palace, soho, etc. i think what really did it was that when we were at the airport they were talking about the possibility of there only being two seats left on the plane. if that were the case, my brother and i were going alone. the possibility of me being in europe without parents was just too much. and it was going to happen!!! they gave my brother and i boarding passes! we were about to get on the plane! but then at the very last minute, the two people showed up. agh. don't ever show up fifteen minutes before a flight. especially a very full one. it's not nice.

after that, we decided to go to amsterdam. that flight was overbooked. then paris, iceland, australia, tokyo. after none of those worked, we set our sights lower. hawaii, the caymans, puerto rico, cuba, santo domingo. houston, miami, anywhere in florida. anywhere in the southern united states. nope, nope nope. now that i think about it, it was kinda funny. my mom and i just started naming cities. cancun, baton rouge, vegas, la, san fran? after a while, the gate attendant started helping us name cities. we would've gone anywhere -phoenix, tuscon, tulsa...when we got down to seattle, ny, canada, it started getting a little better, but there were still long waitlists. this spring break thing is ridiculous. so in the end, we figured out that the only place in the whole united states we can get to is st. louis, right in the middle of the godamn country, where nobody apparently wants to go. so we might head there later on today. why? i don't know.

right now though, out of frustration, i'm listed on a flight to puerto vallarta that leaves in two hours. can't decide if i even want to bother driving to the airport.