Planning a trip to Calgary

Last night was the Canucks/Flames hockey game. It was a great game, although the 3 best players on the Flames weren’t playing, so that was kind of a bummer. We ended up losing 4-5 in a shoot-out, after being down 0-3. I’m happy with that effort. It’s just pre-season, after all.

Speaking of Calgary, it looks like we’re going out there in January to visit BF’s family. It’ll take 3 vacation days because the Flames game we want to go to is on a Wednesday, so we’d just stay Wed-Sun. I anticipate our flights will be about $400-450 each, and tickets to the game will probably run $200 each. We are able to stay with BF’s family, so we won’t have to worry about accommodation. I’m sure we’ll do some dining out, and other things to keep us entertained. I don’t have an exact budget as of right now, but I would think the entire trip will cost about $800-900.

I use an American Express card as my main credit card because I get 1.25% back to go towards travel. Right now I have about $300 that I could put towards the flight out there. Or I could just keep on saving them for a more expensive trip.