My brother is leaving for Iraq again soon…sometime in June is all we really know. Paul and I had been planning on coming to visit him after graduation for a few days because he wasn’t going to be able to make it out here, but due to his expected departure date and the fact that tickets are way cheaper in May then in June we decided to move our trip up.
I had been checking out various prices on Expedia and travelocity etc and I found tickets around $250 per person. Cool. Paul and I can afford that. Fast forward to one week later when my parents and Paul and I are trying to finalize our plans and suddenly tickets cost $360 per person. I don’t know what difference a week makes but apparently it was going to cost us two hundred dollars more. Paul and I had to face the facts, we probably weren’t going to be able to go–or we were going to have to make my brother drive three hours–each way–to pick us up from the airport. Suck.
Then my hero…my daddy steps in.
My mom and dad had saved up a lot of sky miles over the last couple of years and so my dad gets on the computer and checks out his sky miles balance and within twenty minutes Paul and I have our tickets.
Total cost to us: $20
I have the best parents ever. Thanks guys, just thought the world needed to know about your generosity.
Jess Boctor 
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