A Dilemma!

It's so bad of me to want to change my itinerary at the last minute. Especially when it has stayed the same for months now. But I just got a newsletter from the Ballynahinch Castle (I still don't know how to pronounce that damn name). You see, we're staying there for two nights, the 27th and 28th, then driving to Dublin to stay our last night in Ireland (the 29th) before leaving on the 30th.

But Ballynahinch Castle is having a birthday celebration and is offering a free third night stay to its newsletter readers. They have availability on the 29th for us to stay an extra night.

Our original plan was this: stay two nights at the Ballynahinch, drive to the Dublin airport on the 29th and drop off the car. Then take a shuttle back to Dublin, visit with my blog buddy Fran, stay our last night, then take the shuttle to the airport the next morning. Our flight leaves Dublin at 11:00.

Now I'm thinking maybe we could stay the extra night at the Ballynahinch and then just drive to the airport for our flight on Monday morning. The trip is about 3 hours so we would have to leave by about 6 am in order to make our flight. And then I could visit Fran next Thursday, as soon as we fly into Dublin (if she's available, which I really hope she is!).

So what do you think? Should I make the changes and stay a third night? It's a really nice place. Maybe two nights is enough though and it's too much of a hassle to change plans at this point. Brandon isn't too keen on driving straight to the airport from Recess, he said if something goes wrong and we're late then we'd be in deep shit. Maybe he's right.