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  1. Yep you are spot on with all of that. I have been doing some more poking around. Thanks for the link and for doing some searching, appreciate ya! I have since learned that Delta changed the name of their cabin tiers and now call basic economy main cabin and then when you go to drill further into the reservation you can either stick with main cabin basic or upgrade to main cabin regular or something. And basic is just basic economy, no seat selection, no changes, board in group 8, no upgrades. Which sucks and I'm not sure I want to do that. I would like my wife and kids to be able to sit together and I don't need to get stuck in a middle seat for a 13 hour flight with my knees. That's at the 70k/person nonstop to Tokyo level. The upgrade is 95k/ person and I do not have enough miles for that. I'll be doing some more digging. Maybe I put this thing off for another year and just do something smaller this year.
  2. I should have mentioned we're locked in on summer trips because my wife is a teacher, and of course that the kids are in school. Our other breaks - Christmas, spring break, etc are spoken for while both of our parents are still around. Thanks for the feedback so far everyone, very helpful. I'm not worried about a language barrier, that makes it more interesting to me. I've always envisioned that my first overseas trip would be Paris/Europe but I'm starting to lean towards Japan.
  3. Maybe this should be it's own thread but also point related. I've been doing some reading in the France and London threads and would have posted there but I would love to hear from anyone who has experienced going overseas in both directions. I have never been overseas. We have two kids, 16 and 13. We take a family trip every summer. We are basically the Griswolds. I am out of DTW. My main rewards cards and accounts are Skymiles and Chase. I did some searching over the weekend and I have enough miles to book 4 seats in Main Cabin on Delta with skymiles to Tokyo (70k/per), CDG, LHR, Rome or Frankfort (all 50-60k but higher fees). I have always wanted to let them experience going overseas before college and if I can get us there on points, even better. If anyone has any feedback on traveling with family overseas I'd love to hear it. We are not surly elite by any means, but our strong preference on our trips is to avoid standard hotels and stay in a 2 bedroom Airbnb type of place. We would definitely want to do and see some of the touristy stuff as none of us have ever been anywhere outside of North America. I also have been hearing about tourist pushback and overcrowding in places like Paris and Barcelona so that worries me. I'm already ashamed to be American. Second question, is it worth seeing if I can beat those prices in miles with one of Chase's travel partners and where would I look? The only other time I booked via a Chase travel partner was SWA to Hawaii and that was very easy to research. Appreciate in advance any suggestions or guidance.
  4. Why not Isla? 20 minute ferry ride from Cancun. Stay on Playa Norte. Tulum seemed kind of dumpy.
  5. Luge is fucking insane. Most of these winter sports are but luge is the most fucking insane sport of all of the insane winter Olympic sports. How do you start on this shit? How do you practice without defying death every time? How do you get good at it? Do you just lay there and the sled takes you wherever it takes you at 90mph?
  6. Harden to Cleveland for Garland in "advanced talks"...the fuck?
  7. Just looked it up. There's three weeks left until the playoffs start but only two matchups because the last matchup encompasses All Star Week. So next week, regular matchup week, ends on Sunday. The final week matchup starts the 9th with games until 2/12, then no games from 2/13 - 2/18, games resuming on Thursday 2/19 and final week matchup wrapping on Sunday 2/22.
  8. Yesterday was one week post op and the start of at home PT calling for two ten minute walks per day. It was -5 yesterday with wind chill of -25. Today it's a balmy 12 degrees with about 6" of snow on the ground and another 6" falling. You're really going to make me do this Dad? I am.
  9. Who tf decided that all of the tier 3 cast members of the Office needed to reunite and make commercials together?
  10. You know what, even though I personally enjoy it, the whole entire concept and culture around Santa Claus is extremely weird and fucked up.
  11. Not that they were going anywhere but Jimmy Butler just went down with a knee injury. As a self experienced expert on knee injuries, that looked like a dislocated kneecap and probably an ACL.
  12. Anyone know anyone that can help TOR out with these dogs? I believe he said El Paso. Anyone have a decent following on social media to spread the word? @immamac ?
  13. Saw the specialist today. The TPLO surgery is scheduled for Friday. It was not just her left CCL, they believe she tore some meniscus as well and also partially tore the right CCL. 😭 We discussed fixing them both at the same time but after talking through pros and cons I think both Doc and I were on the wait and reevaluate in a few months side. Estimate for the first surgery is $5-6k. I'm at a top specialist in the area so I'm sure it's not the cheapest option but still... yikes. I'm very happy I have insurance. My policy says 80% should be covered up to 50k. Hopefully Lemonade is true to their word. Anyway gonna be a fun few months here. Blech.
  14. Paand. There's a d on the end. I have this print framed in my TV room.
  15. Anyone object to this @BallamaticBevo @d2o @Capn81 @mojo @ztejas @anyonelseimforgetting
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