Meredith, I agree that the prices from DC or BWI are outrageous. I check every single day to see if the price goes down and it never does. We live right by BWI, so flying out from there would be ideal...however its at least $650. You can fly to Europe for that! The other option is to fly out of Reagan or Dulles, but we would have to stay in a hotel the night before. I'm going to look into flights out of Philly....at least we have friends up there we could stay with....