Tickets Home

Hi. Mike here.

It's been brought to my attention (thanks, Susan) that I haven't been clear about the current status of our plane tickets home. Here's the straight scoop.

We are currently booked on the 29th of June -- all four of us. This is a new development, and required some coordination between Eldo (that's Eldo Miller -- our awesome travel agent with Golden Rule Travel in Kansas), and the KLM agents in Almaty. We have not yet paid for those tickets, however, as this requires that we appear in person, holding documentation about Mia. So we won't be able to actually pay for the tickets until the 22nd (at the earliest), or perhaps as late as the 27th. That's because we think we've always been scheduled to travel to Almaty on the 22nd, but there's some confusion about that, as our interpreter seems to think it's the 24th. We'll find that out today. If it's the 24th, then we might have to wait until as late as the following Monday (the 27th) to seal the deal. But we're told that the tickets are held until we pay for them, so there shouldn't be a problem.

Also, there's one little final detail that needs to happen once we pay for the tickets. This involves having Eldo enter the ticket number into his system in the States. Worst part of this is that there's at least a 12-hour turnaround time on this because of the time difference. Yeah -- Oi.

The back-up plan is that we also have tickets held on July 5th -- same situation.

There you have it. Clear as honey (Myud). Bottom line is that we should be leaving on the 29th, but it's not a done deal yet.