We are a clueless couple who tries to book a vacation at Yosemite National Park with only one month in advance. Unsurprisingly, the hotel we wanted was all booked, not only through the month, but through the year! Later we learned that Yosemite is such a popular destination that one usually has to make a reservation one year in advance!!! We were rather disappointed. We called the hotel and were advised to check their website daily for cancellation. So, my new task is to browse their site every day, until… my husband comes up with a better idea. This is the part where I feel very blessed to have married a geeky husband, i.e. a software engineer. He wrote a software program to automatically check the Yosemite website every 15 minutes for any vacancies in the various time frames next month that would work for us. If it detected availability, it would send emails to both of our email accounts and a text message to Evers’ phone to inform us of an open spot. He even sent a test email just to make sure his program was working.

So, instead of checking the website on a daily basis, I could go about my day without any worries and sit tight waiting for that email.

This afternoon my husband called (while walking between meetings) and told me that he had just gotten an email on his Blackberry and urged me to go on the web to reserve the hotel ASAP. I did as he said, and long and behold, we have a hotel reservation!!! Now we can all party and rejoice. Ain’t it wonderful to be married to a geek?