Originally Posted by
Eric Gleason
Dave, thanks for the suggestion. I checked flights and Appleton is--by far--the hardest for her to get to on a reasonable schedule. We'll see what makes the most sense when it comes time to pull the trigger on a plane ticket.
There's a big element of relationship politics going on here. She isn't at all excited about Oshkosh, and is coming mostly because we're also stopping in Chicago to see my extended family on the way home. I don't mind putting the extra time on the plane to go pick her up, and that comes out of my budget. She'll be buying her ticket out of her own budget, and if it costs her too much or she has to be up at the crack of dawn to get a flight, I'll be paying for it. Better to just be grateful that she agreed to spend a couple of nights in a tent with me and my kid and do whatever I can to make her enjoy it more.