How cool does that title sound? Tomorrow, it’s going to happen. I’m flying my family to Atlanta for lunch (and maybe a few other activities).
In late November, a sales representative from Wings Air visited my job to tell everyone about the new passenger air service between Macon and Atlanta. He let us know that flights in December and early January were going to have a promotional rate of 99 cents each way. Of course, being the frugal fool that I am, I jumped on that deal without asking my wife or anyone. I checked our calendar and saw that January 3rd was the only day we could do it, without taking more time off work or canceling other plans.
Of course, the day after I booked, the Macon Telegraph ran an article on the deal and I believe they completely sold out. Sorry readers! Then they ran another article talking about how people booked flights just to take their kids on an adventure . . . just like me!
Anyway, for a grand total of $7.92, the four of us will fly from Macon to Atlanta at 7:45 AM and return somewhere around 6:00 PM. You can’t even drive a hybrid at today’s low fuel prices to Atlanta and back, much less park for that much.
Wings Air uses 8 passenger prop planes, which means we will be half of the passengers on the plane. From what I understand, when we arrive at Hartsfield and look out our window, we will be at eye level with the tires of the other planes. Their competitor, GeorgiaSkies, was doing a similar promotion, but they don’t actually go to the airport.
My wife thinks I’m crazy for getting us into all of these little economical adventures, but I really just need something to blog about. Who knows what we will get into? I can pretty much guarantee that there is a lunch in there somewhere.
Potty training is tough. It was tough with Tristan and it has barely begun with Mackenzie. Thursday night, we knew that we would all be home for four hours straight, so we decided to give it another try.
