What a day. A long day. An exciting day. An expensive day.
Train Tickets -- $10.50
The kids and I took public transportation to the event of a lifetime -- to see Barack Obama speak. Words cannot express the experience.
Concert Tickets -- $88.00
The Son and I will be going to see The Capitol Steps in this spring. I'm really proud of myself for taking action and getting this done -- all too often over the past few years I've had good intentions for getting out and doing extracurricular activities and attending special or cultural events with my children but have rarely followed through. One of my resolutions this year was to build cultural events into our budget.
Bus Fare -- $11.00 + $2.00 tip
This was the first time I've ever used public transportation to get to the airport. It was very comfortable and convenient and $13.00 was a real bargain.
Airport Concessions -- $2.46
I bought myself a big bottle of Aqua Fina water as soon as I was through security.
Grocery Store -- $63.90
Earlier this afternoon I called my mom's house and spoke with my sister. I asked if they could please have something in the house that I could eat because I'd be hungry when I arrived. Somehow she'd understood my request as needing food for tomorrow, not tonight. Since I arrived close to 10pm, they had long since eaten dinner and didn't have anything that could easily and quickly be prepared (taking into account, of course, my extensive food allergies). So we stopped at the local health food store for supplies before heading home.
- organic broccoli -- $3.32
- organic green kale -- $2.79
- organic red cabbage -- $1.37
- organic sweet potatoes -- $6.57
- hydroponic tomato -- $1.24
- organic bananas -- $1.88
- organic green onions -- $1.79
- 1/2 gallon Organic Valley 2% milk -- $3.49
- Applegate organic roast beef slices -- $5.99
- Applegate organic turkey slices -- $6.79
- organic white flour tortillas -- $1.79
- Kashi Autumn wheat cereal -- $3.99
- 6 gallons water -- refills -- $2.34
- fiber capsules -- $15.99
- colby cheese -- $3.46
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Just stumbled across your blog, and found this post. You know, you can take an empty water bottle through security at the airport and then fill it up at a drinking fountain at the gate. I do this every time I fly. I even bring along one or two of those little flavor pouches to put into the water bottle. Saves me at least $10, especially if I have a layover somewhere.
dreamy1 — Thanks for visiting my blog and for taking the time to comment.
I actually had heard the taking an empty water bottle through security and then filling it at drinking fountain trick. The problem is, in all honesty, I don’t drink tap water. Sounds so snobby when I say or write it but it’s the truth.
Except for the occassional glass of Horizon chocolate milk or the very rare glass of Santa Cruz organic lemonade, all I drink is water. It would be no exaggeration to say that at least 99.5% of my total fluid intake is water. It’s also no exaggeration to say that my digestive system is sensitive. Tap water does my system no favors; plus it tastes bad.
I don’t mind telling you, however, that I started to panic at the airport when the first two stores I tried didn’t carry Aqua Fina. Lots of bottled water is simply some other community’s tap water. Aqua Fina water, on the other hand, is subjected to reverse osmosis filtration and the taste is superior. Considering the fact that I don’t spend any money on dining, tabacco, or liquor — ever — I don’t feel too guilty about my one guilty pleasure — designer water when I travel