1 year Wedding Anniversary

I am pleased to annouce that my wife and I are celebrating our 1st year of marriage on May 29th.

We got married last year in Sandusky Ohio, we are from Michigan. We have been planning this trip to CP all year long and have been very excited.

We are less than a week away from our departure and our only car is dead. Engine is gone. We are in the process of getting a used vechicle, but this will most likely drain any money that we have saved for the Point. Also, the dealership that has the car in our price range is closed Friday through Monday to celebrate Memorial Day. That leaves us with Tuesday to purchase the car, title, tax, and insurance. We have reservations for Wednesday through Saturday.

My wife is heartbroken. I have promised her that we will make it to Cedar Point on May 29th, I will keep you all updated on this situation and I will post my awesome fun one year anniversary at CP trip report here.

Pray for me man! I can't believe this has happened so close to our anniversary...what a bummer.

You can always rent a car. It's not that expensive.

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Jeff
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Depends on how old he is Jeff. Don't you have a friend or family member that will loan you a car?

If you are buying a used vehicle, most dealers can have you out the door with everything very quickly after you sign the sales agreement. It's just a matter of finding a car you like, the rest is no problem.

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Cedar Joe said:

We are in the process of getting a used vechicle, but this will most likely drain any money that we have saved for the Point.

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As someone who travels A LOT, and a former travel agency manager, here are my suggestions: when you get to the hotel, tell them that due to financial constraints, you may have to cut your trip short. Is there any special rate available? This does work quite often, suprisingly. A lot of hotels will do what they can to keep you there for the time they have the room reserved. Also, try to eat a big breakfast, and dinner if possible, outside of the park (go to Burger King if you have to). Try to stick with snacks in CP. If you have to rent a car, look on the internet for last minute, inexpensive deals. And do you really need another CP t-shirt, or that picture from TTD (which your wife would probably kill you for getting anyway, we all look terrible in them). Whatever you do, TAKE THE TRIP. It sounds like you could use some time away, and the memories will be worth it!

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*** This post was edited by Jenhosh 5/23/2003 6:18:24 PM ***

First of all, I'd like to say 'Thanks' for your responses!! Renting a car would work, but unfortunatly I am only 23 years old. Last time I checked you had to be 26 years old, but maybe that has changed. The downside to renting a car would be that we wouldn't have a car when we got back from our fun.

I went to many car dealerships today and found a Jeep Cherokee Laredo that we really like. The Sales people were not there today and will be back Tuesday because of the Memorial Day weekend. (this is cutting it close, we plan to leave Wednesday)

Jenhosh, I enjoyed those suggestions immensly. The hotel we are staying at has a free breakfast, so that will help with costs. We both are used to snacking for lunch, so that will work.

Your hotel idea was a good idea (Hospitality is my specialty) i work for Hilton Hotels and I am using my employee discount. The hotel charges are not an issue. ($29.00 a night)

Where I am running into problems is:

This is our first anniversary together. I want it to be special and she expects it to be. I had planned it to work out, but our stupid Grand Am pulled a fast one on us.

I am worried about taking her out for dinner. I mean, I am new at this, but aren't you required to take your wife out to a nice place on your anniversary?

I am looking at a super low budget on our anniversary with the down payment that I have to put down on the Jeep and switching insurance and such.

If anyone has any suggestions as to where we should go for dinner, that would be great. Also, we were planning on going to Cedar Point on Thursday and Friday, but I think i will have to cut this short a day. (due to lack of cash) We will still stay in Sandusky for the day that we were susposed to go to the Point.

What are some fun things to do in Sandusky that require no money, but is thoughtful? I just don't want to ruin this for her. If we both stay busy by having fun, this may turn out to be a blast!!

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aren't you required to take your wife out to a nice place on your anniversary?

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That depends on your wife, but no, not really. For example, for our first anniversary, we had a two week old newborn. So our Big Night was me making a nice dinner at home, served on the good china, sparkling grape juice (she was breastfeeding), and a movie taped off of HBO that we could pause whenever Erica woke up and demanded something. Our second anniversary involved taking our one-year-old to TGI Friday's---the nicest place we dared taking our kid.

A low-cost (though not exactly free) second day in Sandusky might be something like this: take a ferry out to one of the Bass Islands, and take a picnic dinner with you. Hike around the island to build up an appetite, then find some quiet spot with a good view for your picnic. Make sure to make it something more than the "ordinary" picnic, with flowers, some of her favorite foods, a discrete bottle of wine, what-have-you. If you put the effort into it, it could be very romantic.

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*** This post was edited by Brian Noble 5/24/2003 8:08:00 AM ***