Travel Day -1

The airline on which we are flying overbooked our flight on Saturday by 12 seats.  We will try to get on a flight tomorrow through Philadelphia.  I'm afraid the level to which we will be able to be flexible may be tested.  The ordeal of the matter has made us both more eager to be home.  On the whole, we stand to lose way more than any price savings from which we benefited by flying stand-by.  A full day of our vacation in Rome, for which the apartment is not refundable, and the fact that we may not be able to get home on this airline until Wednesday, per the representative, may mean that hotels, train tickets, or just the airline tickets home on another airline may end up costing us twice as much as if we'd just booked a flight.  That's aside from the dinner we skipped tonight our of worry and stress before an early morning arrival at the airport for a flight we may not even board.  These are the risks we calculated.  Tomorrow, we'll see the balance on the ledger.