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Turns out the planners of my high school reunion came to the same conclusion I did in my High School Reunion Dilemma post. In that post I stated:

My 20 year high school reunion is scheduled on the same day as the Ohio State - Michigan game. You could not have a picked a worse date. Would the Pope schedule his high school reunion on Christmas?

Then I predicted:

Now Ohio State plays Michigan every year. I’m willing to miss The Game for a high school reunion, but I don’t think others will see it that way. My hunch is the turnout for the reunion is going to be awful.

Last night, a mere two weeks away from the scheduled reunion, I received an email.

We have postponed our 20 year class reunion due to popular demand. If you didn’t already know this weekend was also the OSU - MICH game.

We are looking at rescheduling it sometime next March or April of next year. We tried to do it sooner but the holidays made it difficult.

It’s a good thing I didn’t buy a plane ticket to Columbus already or I’d be hopping mad. This event did however have a cascading effect on my fall travel plans. I did cancel my trip to Guavaween to avoid the expense of 2 cross country trips inside 3 weeks. Then I backed out of a trip to Puerto Vallara which intersected on a few days of the reunion, which I had a hunch might change dates. Finally I had the date of Thanksgiving wrong in my head. I always thought Thanksgiving was the last Thursday before the last Friday in the month of November. Turns out it is always the 4th Thursday of the month. By the time I learned of my error, that plane trip had doubled in price.

Fall travel summary: no Guavaween, no High School Reunion, no Mexico and no Thanksgiving. At least I can look forward to my 21-year high school reunion in the spring.

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