Tickets! Tickets! Every body get your tickets!

We have a week, and a half before we leave for Taiwan.(What?!!) Yeah, a week, and a half. I make my sister tell me that randomly through out the day so it will sink in. It still hasn't sunk into my mind that I am finally going over seas, out of the country, on a great adventure. I honestly don't think it will until the morning after we arrive in Taiwan.

To begin our adventure we of course had to get tickets. Even Bilbo Baggins had to sign a contract.

I like to call this, The Close Call:
 
    First, We started looking back in January. Surprisingly to me prices for flying to Taiwan are cheaper then if you wanted to fly to Europe if you buy at the right time.(apparently people don't want to have a 20 hr trip) We wanted to go just before it got to hot, but just after the heavy winter rains. Luckily, my husband had lived there for two years serving a mission for our church six years ago. He still kept in contact with some of the people he came to know, and with what he remembered we figured May would be the sweet spot.

   After looking online at prices on different websites for a few weeks, we finally decided we were going to buy the tickets! That's when we started to notice something..interesting happening with our Facebook pages. We have pop-up blockers for our web browser, but of course that doesn't stop Facebook from flooding your news feed with things it has noticed you have been looking for.

   At first it was just annoying, and then I came across this article from USA Today. The article states company's will use your browsing history through your browser, and then offer prices according to how often you have been looking up items. We checked the prices after looking on our usual browser, and then we went to our Safari browser. The article was right. There was almost a $500 difference between the web browser we had been using to find tickets, and the browser that we used for the first time that day.
                                                                 

  Looking at a new browser we started finding really good deals. We compared prices on a few of the cheaper airline sites. After searching for a few minutes....the price jumped a thousand dollars..

                                                   This was pretty much our reaction

Seeing our potential dream vacation out of our reach, Shizzznitsssss!!!

  Thankfully, I have a very handsome, very smart husband(have I mentioned that before?), who figured out that if we changed the date to the next week, not only would the price go down it would go back to the prices we had seen quoted in January.

TAKE THAT INTERNETS!!

If you want to plan a trip, and you have been finding the same problems. I would suggest trying the method that we learned. Some times you really can have your cake, and eat it too.