It is MIL's 60th birthday in a few weeks. As she wanted all the family to be together and to do something fun they decided that we should all go to York for the weekend. I would just like to add at this point that I get on well with ILs, and that in principle I have no issue with the idea of going away for the weekend with them all. But
We will be leaving here on the Friday afternoon some time after ds finishes school, which means we won't actually get to York until 7:30 on the Friday night at the very earliest. So we won't be doing anything on Friday night.
Saturday we are planning to do some things (not sure but mil has some things planned) and have dinner together etc. All sounds ok.
But on the sunday there is engineering work on the trains which means that if we don't want a too hideous journey home then we have to leave York at 1:30 at the latest in order to get home by 6:30 (ds has school on the monday) which again means that we're not going to be doing anything on the Sunday either.
Dh has found the cheapest train tickets possible by booking singles all the way, but with the tickets and staying in a hotel it's going to cost about £300 for what is essentially one day, and we're going to spend about 10 hours travelling on the other two days combined.
It just seems like an awful lot of money/hastle for what is essentially one day.
It's not really that I don't want to go as such, just that I am annoyed at the cost/hastle.
ibu?