Yay pink!
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So ND and I just spent an hour combing around various travel sites and have come to the conclusion that we can't afford to go to CT this summer. It's the right thing to do, and I'm proud of us for not just charging it, but I'm bummed, too. It's been almost a year since I've seen either of my parents, and I know that they can't afford to come out to see me, either. I haven't seen my dad's side of the family in three years, and they've been sending me sweet, "We miss you! Come home!" messages. And the capper is that my mom's mom is turning 95 and my dad's mom is...89 or 90. They aren't going to be around much longer. If one of them passes on before I am able to come home, I'm going to feel awful. Also, also, I miss my friends back there. And New England. Especially the Atlantic.
But between the F2F--which we'd booked before we reached this conclusion--and all of the unexpected expenses of these past couple of months, it just isn't going to happen. We have frequent flier miles, but none we can use in July for this particular location.
I will likely get out of CA for a week or two at some point since ND has another Florida business trip at the beginning of August that won't cost us much at all (everything would be paid for except my plane ticket, which we can probably use FF miles on), but I'm feeling a little sad about the situation.
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