@BethRags, that's great news about the apartment transfer. I hope it is not only exciting but allows you to even better enjoy your home environment. You deserve the most pleasant place possible!

@wildflowerchild25, where there be at least a couple nights in a row when you stay in the same hotel? If so, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you "staying back at the hotel" for short periods when everyone else goes elsewhere. I have done that in the past, myself. Nothing wrong with it at all!

@Sapien, I do hope the red tape is solved quickly. Ugh! Insurance companies in the US!