La Salle Explorers

[eCat]

sounds likes you had a good vacation

[10ac]

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

[eCat]

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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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[AlabamAlum]

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

[eCat]

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[eCat]

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.

[AlabamAlum]

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.

[AlabamAlum]

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

[eCat]

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.

[AlabamAlum]

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.

[sardis]

Take her out for a Dairy Queen pizza.

[eCat]

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

[hedge]

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...

[eCat]

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

[Cletus]

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.

[Jungle Rat]

"You might could"? Damn.

I vote for Bass boat.

[Saint]

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?

[crashcourse]

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

[hedge]

"You might could"? Damn.

Hey, I was talking to eCat...

[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