We’ve been having a tough time trying to figure out what we’re going to do this August. We had planned on taking our home leave then… until the company told us they won’t foot the bill. (They pay for us to fly home once a year… with extra baggage. The calendar for that year re-sets on the anniversary of our arrival here… which is in October.) We were going to just pay for our own airfare but the prices right now are just crazy. I’ve looked at cruises, beaches, Ireland, bike tours, all-inclusive resorts, villas in Tuscany.. nothing has quite been the thing that we’ve looked at and said oh, yes, that’s the thing! Tonight Bill said maybe we should just pay to go home, since that seems to be the thing we want to do. And since the Euro is pounding the dollar, it will cost us about the same. I don’t know…. I just don’t know….
Naturally, the LA-based contingent would love to have you visit in August. There’d be no hotel bills in Rancho Mirage to accompany the 118 degree weather, and your brother’s family could come down for the weekend I imagine, although people would wind up stacked on top of each other, or sleeping on the various couches around the house. But it would be like a sleepover, perhaps. Kaitlyn should like that!