Expedia-Orbitz-Travelocity-Priceline ...Nice.

Has anyone out there ever tried to use one these websites to try to plan a trip? You have got to be kidding me. Okay, okay. So it's not really the websites that suck, but the fact that each of them get so many rooms at a hotel (I am assuming) and when they are gone, you don't really know if they are sold out or not. We bounced around on these websites for a few days, and finally last night, we needed to get our reservations made for my birthday weekend, or we would be staying in scary one star hotel hell. So we go from website to website, and there are a good amount of hotels that we are willing to stay in. But as you go from website to website, some say they are all sold out, some don't. Then when you find a hotel that has available rooms, they vary in price from website to website.

Nice.

Well, initially we were trying to get rooms at the Holiday Inn because they have a good pool for Lukin. Then when we couldn't get at least one of our rooms to guarantee that it would have two beds, we bailed on that idea. I mentioned that the weekend we stayed in Fergus Falls, we didn't use the pool, so we were okay with the fact that there wasn't necessarily a good pool. So we booked a suite (so we knew there would be sleeping area for three people) and a mystery room. I don't know what they call it on the website but you won't know what type of room it is til you check in. So, to me, that makes it a mystery.

Nice.

The main thing is that we now have enough sleeping area for the six of us. Now I just gotta get myself going so that there will be more than 3 of us out for my birthday. You like that? There will be six of us there but only three of us will go out for my birthday.

Nice.

I can't even put my best friend in charge of arranging something so friends can come because she has to work her new second job until 9 pm. So I guess I will be begging people to come to my own birthday party, and look lame and have no one show (as per my Going Away Party).

Nice. Real Nice.