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sounds likes you had a good vacation

Too bad he didn't get eaten by a hammerhead or hit in the head with a hammer.

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if one was so inclined to own a gun, getting a boyds stock makes a nice upgrade to your existing collection

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That's beautiful. I would get one.....that is, if I ever own a gun.

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I thought, ok, my wife is hitting the big 50 in a couple of years, I should do something nice for her. A trip I says to myself, a trip with her and the kids to a bucket list, place - Venice maybe.

So I do a search for travel packages and Costco travel pops up so I says, hey Costco is good stuff and good prices., so I punch in the information and say, lets do this for 7 days, 2 days in venice, 2 days in florence, 3 days in Rome. Airfare and rail travel, all that jazz.

the website goes off and does its little hourglass thingy and comes back with the package price

$11,841.00


GAWD DAMN!

so I says to myself, I should do something nice for her, like a buy her a bass boat.

Priceline a trip to Rome. Have that as your home base and see Florence and some close by sites on a day trip or two.

7 days is nor enough time to do overnights in Rome/Venice/Florence justice. Imo, anyway.

Honestly, you could easily fill all 7 days in just Rome - especially with a day on Florence (it's close).

Package trip was the easy route. I expected to see $6k, not a damn BMW motorcycle. So I will have to look at what other options are. Priceline scares me because I have been burned on what they think is a 4 star hotel before.

The vacation packages on Priceline show you the hotel. No guessing.

You have 2 kids, correct? That's 4 RT airfares. That's the bulk of your cost.

Take her out for a Dairy Queen pizza.

sardis wrote:Take her out for a Dairy Queen pizza.

heh

you got to ease her into stuff like that, you just can't throw her into the big city all at once

That price didn't seem exorbitant for a week in Italy for 4 people. You might could find something for less than that, but there's no way to take 4 people to Europe for a week for $6K. I would think the flights alone would be upwards of $1000 each...

hedge wrote:That price didn't seem exorbitant for a week in Italy for 4 people. You might could find something for less than that, but there's no way to take 4 people to Europe for a week for $6K. I would think the flights alone would be upwards of $1000 each...

yea I get that, I was figuring $900 to $1K for flights, but I think they are more than that, plus multiple cities versus 1 and the rail costs.

I'm not going to go on the cheap though - at least with the wife and kids, so either the kids stay home or we seek an alternative.

My value system, regardless of what I have in the bank does not allow me to spend $11,000 for a single week vacation. My depression era grandparents would rise up out of the grave and slap me on the back of the head

hedge wrote:That price didn't seem exorbitant for a week in Italy for 4 people. You might could find something for less than that, but there's no way to take 4 people to Europe for a week for $6K. I would think the flights alone would be upwards of $1000 each...

I am at the tail end of a week in Paris with my family of four and I'm sure we'll end up doing this under $10K and probably around $7500. The key is that I got insanely lucky with airfare. I got all four of us here for about $2200 which is a miracle. AirBnb is also a huge saver when dealing with four people. Also, I refuse to take any cabs or Uber when over here so we end up walking a ton and learning the metro system intimately. Cabs can add up fast.

"You might could"? Damn.

I vote for Bass boat.

Cletus wrote:

hedge wrote:That price didn't seem exorbitant for a week in Italy for 4 people. You might could find something for less than that, but there's no way to take 4 people to Europe for a week for $6K. I would think the flights alone would be upwards of $1000 each...

I am at the tail end of a week in Paris with my family of four and I'm sure we'll end up doing this under $10K and probably around $7500. The key is that I got insanely lucky with airfare. I got all four of us here for about $2200 which is a miracle. AirBnb is also a huge saver when dealing with four people. Also, I refuse to take any cabs or Uber when over here so we end up walking a ton and learning the metro system intimately. Cabs can add up fast.

So the family vacation abroad is basically a series of forced marches around Paris?

Norwegian airlines to London 2 adults 860
5 nights in London june 30-july 4 1800 somewhere down by the thammes 4+ star
train to paris 3 nights there 950
plane trip home july 8th I think 930

that's 2 people including hotels 8 nights which the London one is 2 room sleeps 4
all for less then 5K

pretty sure norwegain flies from Chicago to rome

Jungle Rat wrote:"You might could"? Damn.

Hey, I was talking to eCat...

A friend of mine I grew up with, owns a bar-b-q stand back in my home town, 3rd generation bar-b-q place, my dad built the place back in the 50's for them.

At any rate, I haven't been in touch with the guy since high school - at least not face to face - he reached out to me on facebook several years ago and the guy was always posting about wrestling. You know the local - Wednesday Night at the Paducah National Guard Armory, bring the kids - sort of thing but this guy was traveling around a 3 hour radius and I realized he was one of the wrestlers.

Never thought much about it until someone posted a picture of him on facebook last night



gawt damn! I ain't one to talk but he needs to give up that wrasslin and take up Zumba. It takes a confident man to show up in public looking like that.

IWA - come for the wrestling, stay for the CPR