Big spending weekend

Well, even without the Wii preorder, this weekend was still very "costly" for me. Part of which is of course going down to Chicago and securing my plane ticket back home in December. Yeah!

I checked a couple agencies in Chinatown. The first one was pretty bad. They couldn't find any open seats on any airlines except one, and it was Cathay/AA which means i need to stop in O'Hare and Narita, Tokyo. Definitely not desirable to me (since I already quite some number of miles with UAL, I rather stick with United). The agent tried to play scare tactics but unfortunately (fortunate for me), I was like "meh" and left.

That proved to be the smart move. At the next agency, the agent there did manage find an open seat on the 7th AND it's MSN-ORD-HKG, for the same price as the Cathay/AA one earlier! The only catch is that I have to issue the ticket right away. Oh well, don't really think I can pull out any better deals so I handed him my credit card, he handed me my receipt.

Now I just need to submit yet another vacation request for the 7th and I'll be all set! Guess I can officially start the vacation count-down clock... Kakaka...