Air miles: Good News....Bad News....Good News

As I wait for news regarding our dossier at the embassy, I decided to start looking into using our US Air miles for our trip. I tried logging in this weekend, and could not for the life of me remember my acct number. This prompted me to call US Air this morning to find my acct number. Well lo and behold, I have 3 Dividend accounts with them! Who knew?? Anyway long story short, with all 3 combined accts I have about 50K in airline miles!!!! So that's the good news...

The bad news...US Air does not go to Almaty!!! I have to see if any of its affiliates do.

BUT....US Air does however go to a vacation spot Mike and I have been wanting to return to for a while, and I have just enough airmiles for 2 round trip tickets...making this a REAL possiblity! We are looking for a relatively cheap hotel, and if we can find it, we are going!! We'd like to take one last romantic get-away before we are a family of 3. We are looking at a mid-week getaway towards the end of September for our 4th anniversary! It will take 3 days to merge all the accounts and get my name right on them all (they were all opened under my maiden name); apparentely they can only merge or make changes one at a time...whatever...regardless, by the end of the week we should know if we can take our (hopefully) last* romantic vacation for a while!!!

* I say hopefully last, because if everything works our, our next real vacation get-away will require something kid friendly!!!