Canada or new bedroom furniture?

Decisions, decisions.

And it's really getting to crunch time now. We need to make a decision soon and get the flights organised. But we are just so torn (sorry couldn't resist that link, it makes me laugh every time I see it).

On the one hand it would be so great to catch up with all our friends across the water in Nova Scotia. Only this morning Noah was demanding to see his friend Kristin, eldest daughter of my very good friend Winzee (don't worry she's not really called Winzee, long story) and the following conversation ensued:

Me: No, it's too far
N: We could take a plane
Me: Umm, no darling we can't get a plane it's just too far.
N: We could just drive to the airport and then get a plane.

Suffice it say I couldn't seem to win the argument.

Anyway, I digress. It would also be nice to get back and visit some of those places that were on our 'to do' list, you know how it is when you live somewhere, you very rarely go out sightseeing, and if you do in the beginning it wains the longer you live there until the only time you go and visit places is when you have visitors! In addition the flights out to NS haven't cost us anything. When we were booking our flights to return to England it turned out to be cheaper, much cheaper, around CDN $1500 cheaper, to book a return flight. So we did.

On the other hand we would have to pay for the flights back and pay for accommodation, food, car hire etc. etc. Although I'm pretty sure some of our friends would offer to put us up, 2 weeks and 5 extra people is a lot, and I'm not sure I would feel happy descending on people for that long.

Then there is the fact that we have travelled so much lately. C'mon, neither Richard and I felt like we could be bothered with the hassle of just going over to Paris for our wedding anniversary! So the thought of another long haul trip with the children is not appealing.

And then, finally, we desperately need, and I mean need (we are currently piling up our clothes on the floor for lack of drawer space), new bedroom furniture.

The problem is, on paper, it seems as if the negatives for going far outweigh the positives but in our minds the positives are really strong positives so in a way equal the negatives. Strange, weird logic, I know, but it's ours!

So that's the dilemma. Any thoughts?