The Beautiful Head of Fate

Alright, here is the explanation of why our trip to Paris was changed so drastically:

The reason that we are going to Europe in the first place is because my brothers partner, Danielle, used to work for Air Canada and hence gets cheap stand-by flights. Now the access to said flights was ending at the end of April so they decided to go on one more trip and asked us along. We said yes!

Then fate reared her beautiful head on the form of a job offer for Danielle (my brother's girlfriend) back at Air Canada, which she decided to take, and which started on the day that we were planning on leaving for Paris.

Now since Danielle really wanted to see Paris and now could not go we decided to save France for here and go on a different trip, hence Eastern Europe. We were already going to land in Frankfurt so heading east instead of west just seemed to make sense.