So I had been monitoring ticket prices to France for about 2 months now. For the last month I was checking every day or so. For a long while, I thought it would cost me $5000 for me and the 2 boys to fly to France to see Bonne Maman and Grandpere. $723 each way plus tax times 3 people. No discount for kids. Zut. I was about the cave in and buy the ticket, but then a friend told me that actually ticket prices would be dropping in a couple of days. "Wait until Wednesday morning", she said. So I waited. Wednesday came and the prices were the same. Thursday morning though, magic. Now it was only $562 each way. How did that happen? It was still pretty expensive considering with taxes that was still $1300 per person -- but was much cheaper than $1620 per person. It's seems to be all about perspective. Sort of like gas prices -- paying $3.80 at the gas station seems cheap, compared to the $4.10 I was paying a few months ago... So we are going for most of August, 4 weeks total leaving the last week of July. Our new au pair arrives from Grenoble arrives the day after we return. Kids start school the following week.... However the belle familie isn't exactly content.... Pourquoi? Well turns out the kids and I are missing the baptism of the boy's little cousin. Well we can't do everything. We didn't know the au pair could only arrive the last week of Aug or 2 weeks later, we didn't know that it would cost $500 more for the 3 of us to leave 4 days later, we didn't know that school would start that early... We just didn't know. Besides, 1 hour in a church and 3 hours of eating, what little 2 and 4 year old boys would be happy with that? Zut again.
I guess it doesn't matter, can't make everyone happy...
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