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Okay. Trying to stop myself from utter panic in my attempt at vacation planning. Although the fact that I have no idea what I'm doing (!!!) does not help with this.

And so I have a question, in hopes that someone more experianced with traveling can answer it (or maybe throw a pillow at me for being blinded by my own panic, which is entirely possible).

Which of these two things should happen first: Buying plane tickets or applying for my days off at work?

Also do I just go and look for a hotel after I get there, or arrange that beforehand, or what?

Because all the "Wheeee! Vacation!" kind of sputtered and hid once I started trying to plan. Though it keeps peeking out as long as I'm not thinking about useful details of planning. -.-

Oh! And plane tickets... buy them online or go talk to someone at the airport?