My Promotion from work went through today! I will see the paycheck next week :) Part of taking the job for the "intern" program was at the end of one year and the end of the 2nd year I would advance 2 grades and see decent pay raises. So now we will have about $500 more in disposable income to use. So far we plan on putting an extra $125 towards my student loan and $200 towards a new car per month. The rest we will just have to see what we want to do with it. On another good money note, our savings officially has enough to go to Europe in Fall 2011 so now everything we add will go towards other vacations, emergencies, or a new car! I have my eyes on a Prius, but we will see. I hope to get one the spring of 2012!
I also purchased Lonely Planet Central Europe on Amazon.com to start planning, I get excited and plan really early! This is the same book, only an updated version, that we used on our last trip and it was great. We haven't really decided what we are going to do but so far we know Oktoberfest and Vienna. Ideally I'd want to do Oktoberfest, Salzburg, Vienna, and Krakow in the 2ish weeks we're going to be there. We discussed London or Paris but both decided in the far future when we have children those are easy cities to travel with them to so we're saving them for the future. We've also thrown around doing the Naples area or Venice in Italy.
More on traveling. I finally finished our online travel blog over DC and Europe. They are here
http://www.travbuddy.com/dlstegelman/blogs
I also purchased Lonely Planet Central Europe on Amazon.com to start planning, I get excited and plan really early! This is the same book, only an updated version, that we used on our last trip and it was great. We haven't really decided what we are going to do but so far we know Oktoberfest and Vienna. Ideally I'd want to do Oktoberfest, Salzburg, Vienna, and Krakow in the 2ish weeks we're going to be there. We discussed London or Paris but both decided in the far future when we have children those are easy cities to travel with them to so we're saving them for the future. We've also thrown around doing the Naples area or Venice in Italy.
More on traveling. I finally finished our online travel blog over DC and Europe. They are here
http://www.travbuddy.com/dlstegelman/blogs
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