About a year and a half ago, we considered traveling this summer. We wanted to do a "family" trip somewhere in the US. My grandfather passed away pushing two years now, and my grandmother subsequently moved to Florida with my uncle and his family. My aunt and her family lives nearby, so we considered going there. But we also wanted to see our parents. Things didn’t work out quite as we wanted it, and grad school for Donna also threw a wrench into our plans. We then invited her parents out here (my dad would never fly here in the summer heat!). Somewhere along the line my parents suggested they’d meet us in Florida, but with Donna going back to her old job July 1st and grad school, she could not fly. But Claire and I are off, and if we’re not around, then it’s more school work time for her. Sure she will miss Claire if we went to Florida, but I’ve been there before. A week here, 2 weeks there.

Tax season ended this week, so my dad came out of his cave and called his travel agent who’s booking him tickets to Florida for the first week in June. I looked up tickets and came up with $800+!! Donna wasn’t too thrilled until she found tickets less than half that for me and Claire. And I am happy to say tonight we booked two tickets to Florida. We will see my family, and Dad even wants to take Claire and her cousin to Disney for the day. This summer is turning out pretty sweet. Donna goes back to the job she likes, we do some traveling, I see my grandmother who ain’t no spring chicken, Claire sees all of her grandparents, I travel to the AP Conference, and my in-laws fly out for a couple weeks to see us all.