My husband just informed me that we have enough "points" from our credit card for a free hotel, airline tickets will cost less than $700, and my in-laws have agreed to watch the kids--so we can spend our 15th anniversary in the Bahamas! As you ALL know, this on the surface looks like the chance of a lifetime, but at the same time I am scared silly. This would be the first time we have gone away by ourselves. We didn't even have a honeymoon--we spent a day at Disneyland and had to rush right back to my husband's air base because that was the same day the Gulf War started.


So you all know what is holding me back. 1) the 4 hour flight 2) the time of year--January. Will I be sick with a sv*? Will I be leaving sick kids? 3) the "foreigness" of it--although I think it's a pretty tame first international step (I've been all over the US and eastern Canada but that's it). But I still worry about different food, etc.


The good part is, it is only for 4 days, so really I won't have to eat much, but then again that's the fun of it, isn't it? Ugh. I guess I just came here for you guys to cheer me on--and tell me it'll all be OK!! TIA!!!