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Paris Vacation: How could we afford not to go?

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Our family doesn't do anything small, with four kids and two dogs, nothing holds us back, including international travel!  Over the holidays as my husband and I bemoaned the outcome of the election,  and difficult 2016 endured by our family's relocation from Colorado to Oregon, (which included surviving the toughest housing market, subsequent mediation and hiring of contractors to make our home livable), we decided to Carpé Diem... and purchase plane tickets to Paris.  Because why not?  With little money left in our pockets from the move and home purchase, the status of U.S. diplomacy spiraling back 50 years, passports already in hand, rock-bottom airline tickets, and long-time friends/former colleagues living in Paris until June, I simply told my husband "how could we afford not to go?"  (Luckily our friends said 'yes' to our logic and welcomed us into their home, for which we are eternally grateful to experience the vacation of a lifetime!)  Having lived an