Well yesterday turned around almost as soon as I finished my post! My wonderful husband called to let me know he was on his way home having used a floating holiday to spend the rest of the day with me.
We went to AAA to price out and begin the preliminary planning for a trip to England this spring. Now, we have been together for almost 11 years and I feel like we have talked about traveling to Europe for about 10 of them! But financially something always came up...grad school for me...getting married...buying a house...second degree for him...adoption. We have been a single income family for 3 of the last four years while JT was in school and have become budgeting ninjas. So now we have the money; however, time is now in limbo.
What if we plan our trip and get a match between now and then? We asked the agent about travel insurance and after some digging, including calling the actual insurers, discovered that our situation would not be covered. After researching some more it appears that even air travel specifically for international adoption is not insured. Which certainly provides perspective for our little optional vacation plan!
The hotel accommodations and tours can be canceled up through April 1 (we are currently looking at a trip that would take place over my spring break), but we would be out the cost of the flight--yikes! But if you think about it we have done so much the "right way" when it comes to building our family and we continue to wait day after day with no end in sight. Who knows, maybe, it's time to throw caution to the wind and just go for it!
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