Woohoo - Canadian Dollar

Leaving Monday and the Loonie has just passed US dollar. That is a far cry from when the dollar was 1.65 years back. It will be odd travelling without taking the dollar into consideration.

I do recognize the economical issues associated with this trend but I will be selfish for 5 nights in vegas.

Woohoo - Canadian Dollar

Todays rate is .9999. Not a big difference.

Woohoo - Canadian Dollar

That%26#39;s amazing i%26#39;m not goin till next august (2008) for our honeymoon but i%26#39;m thinking about exchanging some money now cause who knows what the loonioe will be next year

Not a bad idea at all.

I can remember going to the casino in Halifax 6-7 years ago, loved the exchange rate then! However, I was looking at it from the US perspective.

Whenever we get back from a trip we immediately start buying $ from each paycheque for the next trip. This way it doesn%26#39;t seem like you%26#39;re actually taking x amount of $%26#39;s from your account all at once. Mind you when the $ was at $1.65 we didn%26#39;t go to the USA that year at all.

we only get to go every two years , so we go no matter what the rate is. going the 23rd sept. can;t wait !!!

I for one am sad about this because I need to go to Ceasers Windsor to keep my points on my Harrahs card!!! Now I am going to have to take the even exchange :-( I guess I will just hop over the border and play about $30 and come back to MGM.

Most of the travel sites haven%26#39;t seemed to have caught up yet...I booked a flight today and was surprised how high the quoted US $$ fare was once they converted it into CAD $$.

Oh well, at least I%26#39;ll save on the US $$ I%26#39;ll be bringing with me!

Here%26#39;s a tip for fellow Canadians.

My mom has a US $ bank account here in Canada. She said she doesn%26#39;t pay a fee for it and it actually earn a very small amount of interest, when the exchange is good she puts Cdn money in and it is converted at that time to the appropriate US dollars and then when she wants to travel she draws it out in US dollars .

I%26#39;m going to look into this option because I want to take advantage of the par rate but I don%26#39;t want alot of cash in the house. The rate will probably stay close to current rate till Christmas but then who ever thought we would see par.

More money to spend in Vegas or at least less guilt about spending it Lol

Gotta love par....and it%26#39;s here to stay for a while......Vegas in 3 weeks.....Yay for me!......Oh and on the US bank account....any bank will do it....so right now would be a good time for all of you who don%26#39;t aleady do this......

Just got my gangster roll of US greenback from the bank today. Will be there on Sunday. I%26#39;m gonna shop and shop and shop!!

whoohoo indeed