OUCH!!!

Looking things over, plane tickets have skyrocketed in price recently.
Looking like after covering a part of one nights room, the Conference
will cost me OVER $500. When $350 was a stretch, what is this
increase going to do to me?

I am hoping to get a last minute rate. I am certainly hoping to join
all of you in Boston for our little "party", but we shall see. I
would have booked earlier, but the previous date for the rates I was
seeing, was only good through early July, so I couldn't book then.