Potential good news regarding tickets to France

By being a bit more flexible on my dates, I can get the number of miles per ticket down to something more reasonable.  Originally, two US Air tickets were going to cost 240,000 miles.  However, if we fly out a few days earlier, we can save over 30,000 miles per ticket.  Therefore, it looks like we are going to spend a few more days in France, but there's worse things than that, right?!

Hopefully, tonight is the night that I will be able to make the arrangements.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.