I have had my upcoming trip to India planned since last year.  The dates were discussed and bantered back and forth…schedules were coordinated.  The only thing that was left was to raise money for airfare and incidental expenses.   This shouldn’t be hard….should it?

I have been watching the airfare slowly creep up as the date drew closer and closer.  Last week I only had $150 towards my airfare and I was at less than 2 weeks until departure.  Yesterday evening (1 week to go, I was still over $200 short).

We had some friends over for dinner last night.  As they left, they slipped some cash into my hand.  $200!!!!  Of course I couldn’t get into the bank until this morning.  I had been watching a series of flights that left Chicago and routed through Germany.  Over the last week those had climbed into the $1,800 range.  Another flight through the UAE had been at $979 for a while, but it didn’t arrive until a day after the other flights and over the weekend it had gone to $3,800.

This morning I awoke and ran to the computer, the money was in the bank.  I had $1,190 to work with.  I jumped on Vayama and boom…the flights through Germany I had been watching, were $1068 round trip.   I booked them and they were confirmed within an hour.  I next booked my round trip from Corpus Christi to Houston.  I had 20,457 frequent flier miles with Continental.  The round trip was 20,000 frequent flier miles and $80 in fees.   I had just enough.

God is good all the time!!!