I did pretty well with the trip to south Florida. I spent $428 overall. This included a car rental for a week and two plane tickets. The only thing I am not including in the cost is the three restaurants. I will be reimbursed for those as they were mystery shops. I also mystery shopped two grocery stores. I picked up snacks and juice boxes for my grandkids with those. I head to Michigan in three weeks and hope that trip is around $600 so my total stays around $1000 for both trips. This should be totally doable as I will stay with family. The major costs will be the car rental (heavily discounted through my daughter) and gas.
In other news, I am so proud of my son. He scored a 32 (the national average is around 21) on his first try on the ACT. This was with no prep and he ran out of time on the math section. He is going to take it again and shoot for a perfect score (he was perfect in reading and close to it in science and English). With his GPA and these scores I know he will get some excellent scholarships. We are daring to hope he may even get a full ride somewhere!
South Florida trip Total and College News
June 25th, 2016 at 02:16 pm
June 25th, 2016 at 02:35 pm 1466865300
My Florida trip was $490, which included gas, two nights at a hotel, and food. That's great that you can use mystery shopping to augment your vacation!
June 26th, 2016 at 10:12 am 1466935922
June 28th, 2016 at 02:40 am 1467081630