I can't imagine the hours that were invested in knitting the 320 hats that came with us to Russia. They are beautiful! A rainbow of colors and textures...each one unique and awesome! Thank you ladies of University Bible Church! So, the hats were delivered to us in Boise before our trip, and we were wowed by the sheer volume! We came up with the "brilliant" idea of vacuum packing all of the hats in a giant green duffel bag. And it still weighed less than the allotted fifty pounds. This way, we reasoned, we can just collapse the duffel bag inside another suitcase when we come home and not have to pay for it's return flight. Alas, when we checked in at the airport on our departure day, our duffel was labeled "oversized" and it cost TWO HUNDRED dollars to send! With no time to repack, we paid the ridiculous charge. After all, we reasoned that was less tha $1 per hat. (In everything give thanks!) So, after having lugged the giant green beast of a duffel bag through two airports, onto two trains, and up seven flights of stairs, we have a deeply invested interest in these hats! So...
The yarn and time to knit 320 hats...lots of dollars!
Cost of airfare to Russia...$250 ($50 for an extra bag, $200 because it's oversized.)
The joy of sharing the hats with Russian orphans...PRICELESS!
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