Immigrating!!!

We'll be immigrating to California on May 11!

Finding tickets was a pain as usual, with the added concern of checking the baggage regulations of all potential airlines. For instance US Airways was consistently coming up about $50 under Air Canada's best price...but you have to pay $35 in baggage fees with US Airways for what Air Canada will give you for free which makes it only a $15 savings. So considering Air Canada is more comfortable, more friendly on average, and gives you those nice individual entertainment centers $15 extra starts to sound downright reasonable. Then there were all the times that flights that came up on searches ended up being "not available" when you tried to buy them. I tried all the tricks in the book, looked at changing carriers in, well, all sorts of parts of the world (Iceland came very close to working out...in fact it would have been about the same price as Air Canada but with more hassle. Though it would have been, well, Iceland!) And I tried to get one of the flights with the 8 hour layover in Vancouver. That sounded fun. But no, sold out.

But it's all settled now. We have tickets. We're coming on the 11th. Ready or not, here we come.