Visiting friends and family in Chicago and Minnesota

Now that the time to travel is getting closer, we finally got our tickets to visit friends and family in the states and also our one way! tickets to New Zealand. We probably over paid a tiny bit from the NZ tickets, at about $1550 for two 1-way tickets. We were just so excited about finally setting a date in stone and also the prices seemed to be slowly creeping up. Our travel date is Saturday July 7th at night and we get to Auckland on Monday morning I think. It is only a 13-14 hour flight supposedly from San Francisco, CA but with time differences we lose a day or two.

We also got some tickets to visit the family. June 21st - July 1st we are going to be in Chicago and Minnesotta. We fly into Midway from Oakland and spend a few days in Chicago with family and friends, then have a one way rental up to MN, for a few days. Our sister-in-law is having a baby at the end of June, so we hope the timing is perfect. We also get to visit our friends Rob and Karin (who is also expecting soon) on the way to the Minneapolis airport on Sunday the 1st. After that we are back for a few days to visit friends in SF and sell off/give away that last few things we own and then off to New Zealand.

Matthew