I am coming down from what is known as "the airfare high."

Airfare obtained! YIKES/YAHOO/HOLY YOU-KNOW-WHAT!
At the moment, I am coming down from what is known as "the airfare high."  After months and months of looking for airfare, Delta has finally come to their senses and has lowered their price to be the "best" one.  For the record, Air Canada has championed the lowest price from MSP to MEL at $1826, for months on end.  This morning, I checked the Delta fare and it was at $2100 or something.  In the afternoon, I get an email from J telling me that the same flight (apparently, Delta only has one flight to Oz... LAX to SYD) is now $1925.  "Alriiiiight!" I thought to myself. So, I get home at like, 5:00pm and decide to check it out again.  It's still the same.  I spent some time watching quality television (The O.C., if you must know) waiting for J to get home from work so we can head up to The Lowbrow for beers and food.  We walked up to the restaurant, had dinner, walked home in a lightning/hail storm (but that's really neither here or there), then returned home.  Over dinner, we had agreed to purchase our tickets upon returning home.  So yeah, while watching all the tornado warnings on television, we decided to peruse the airfares again.  Wouldn't you know it?  The price had fallen again!  This time, Delta lowered the cost to $1825 (take that one dollar difference, Air Canada!). Click, click, sold.  We are in like Flynn!
I should mention that I don't have some weird affinity for Delta or anything... we had vouchers.  Last summer, when we were leaving England, our flight was totally overbooked.  The agent asked us if we wouldn't mind volunteering to be bumped.  Naturally, I said it would depend on the amount and where they were going to put us up for the night.  Usually, the voucher is something crappy like $200.  Trust me, whenever I fly out of Newark to London or Berlin, that flight is ALWAYS overbooked and I think $250 was the best deal I've ever heard offered (plus an overnight stay in Newark!  Personally, I think they need to sweeten the deal more if I'm gonna have to bed-down in that city for the evening.)  Anyway, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I heard the agent in London tell me that we'd each be receiving a $1,000 voucher, plus a stay at the plush Heathrow Hilton, with all meals included.  So yeah, $1825 minus $1000 for airfare to Melbourne.  I can barely get to Europe for $825 these days.  Not too shabby...

St. Christopher... thanks for having my back, man!