yeah, don't be jealous. There is a reason why its 19 days off. 5 of those days are unpaid. We had to take a week off unpaid each quarter this year. Financialy I paid a lot of money for this trip! LOL The other 5 days is vacation time though... then there are 2 days that I floated a holiday for one of them, so I got no time off for the 4th of July... and I sold my soul and worked nights and weekends for 3 months now so I could get comp time for the last day. I was originally going to NM from Oct 3 - 10th, but when we had to take time off in the 3rd quarter, my boss was freaking out that we have 5 people and already they had weeks of vaca lined up for the summer then had to each take an extra week and anyone with kids wanted to do it during summer vacation so I offered to stay all summer with no time off IF I could get a comp day in Sept and merge my unpaid time and my vacation time into one long trip. Needless to say its been a LOOONNGGGG summer! But it will be worth it when I get out there and meet my nephew and see my family and Balloon Fiesta! woohoo
