Preparation Journal

December 2001:  Dr. Novak receives an invitation to chair a session at EUSAR 2002 in Cologne, Germany from June 4th to 6th, 2002.
January 2002:  Dr. Novak gets approval to be able to attend conference.  Dr. Novak accepts invitation to chair a session at EUSAR 2002. 
January 21, 2002:  I order the frequent flyer tickets for Dr. Novak, Gretchen and I.  Dr. Novak will be flying roundtrip on United from Boston to Frankfurt.  Gretchen and I will be flying to Zurich on Swiss Air and then returning from Frankfurt on Swiss Air. 
January 22, 2002:  Make reservations via the Internet for hotel in Cologne during the conference.  
January 28, 2002:  I request price quote from car rental company for picking up the car in Zurich and leaving it off in Frankfurt.
January 29, 2002:  I request another price quote from car rental company picking up and leaving off the car in Zurich. 
January 30, 2002:  Second price quote MUCH cheaper SO we are changing our plans.
February 2, 2002:  Call Swiss Air and change reservations for Gretchen and I to leave from Zurich NOT Frankfurt. 
February 3, 2002:  Look on the Internet and see where we should go.
February 6th and 7th:  Start working on web page for Virtual Fieldtrip 2002.  Three students from Mrs. Yanco’s class will be helping me. 
February 11, 2002: Dr. Novak’s tickets from United arrive. 
February 12, 2002:  Dr. Novak and I got our passports in 1992.  I just checked our passports last night.  Dr. Novak’s will expire in March and mine will expire in June!  Gretchen’s passport expired when she turned 18 in high school.  All three of us need to go and have pictures taken for our NEW passports. 
February 14, 2002: Dr. Novak gets his picture taken at work.

February 18, 2002:  Gretchen and I get our pictures taken for our new passports.
February 25, 2002: Dr. Novak sends in his old passport to get a new one.  
March 1, 2002:  Gretchen takes passport form and pictures to the Dunstable Town Hall.  Her passport is in the 'works'.  
March 15, 2002:  Gretchen receives her passport.
April 2nd, 2002:  Mrs. Novak sends her passport out EVEN though it was good for the trip.
April 19, 2002:  Mrs. Novak receives her new passport.
May 9th, 2002:  Dr. Novak finds out that he has an important meeting in Washington, DC and can't go to Europe.
May 14th, 2002:  Mrs. Novak changes reservations.  Hope we are set.  


TO DO LIST:
Get some European money.
Purchase some new travel books on this area.

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