Playing the Expedia Roulette

I finally booked our tickets to Switzerland for Christmas. I swear, every time I go through this I develop ulcers. I started looking at prices and consulting with my travel agent cousin in September and it looked pretty decent, flight- and price wise. But then travel plans got changed, and then they got changed again and sure enough, all the short and inexpensive flights are no longer so.

We ended up flying out of Austin as opposed to DFW (we better have a place for Homer here) and the flights aren't too indirect, so I take that as a consolation for the higher price we had to pay. Still, watching the prices on Expedia go up and down (and up, and up, and up) reminded me of the halcyon days of the dot-com stock bubble (and the hollow feeling in my stomach when it burst).