Oh, one other thing

As we learned from our little experience with the hotel, don't count on the flight arrangements being final quite yet.

I'm holding these reservations with Continental, but I'm not married to them for a few days yet. I've asked a travel agent to put in a bid for us. If she comes in at a significantly lower per ticket cost or comes in with better flight times, I'll change it all around. The BYSAPC budget is pretty well all used up thanks to higher oil prices/airfares putting the last nail in my budgetary coffin and if I can save a buck or two along the way I will.

There's actually a tiny bit of good news on the budget front. Has anyone else noticed that the Yankee Dollar has had a nice little rally vs. the Euro in the last five weeks or so. On July 14th, it took $1.59 to buy 1 Euro. Today you can buy a Euro for $1.48. That's an absolutely huge improvment and means that everything in France is 6% cheaper than it was a month ago. Hooray!

So if I make changes to our flights, unlike the hotel experience, I'll only do it once.