The trip got of to a bit of a rocky start. Let's start with a recap.
On Tuesday the movers called. Apparently they had a problem, they'd double booked Monday and wanted to know if we could instead have our stuff moved on Sunday. Reluctantly we agreed, and things were set in motion. Yours truly worked until Friday, that left me with only evenings to pack as well as get everything planned and see my friends some before I left. Needless to say that made things a little hard to get done.
So Friday saw me woefully unprepared for the weekend. On Friday we packed as swiftly as we could, while planning Kailee's party and getting travel plans solidified. Saturday began with Kailee's birthday party, this was set in an uncomfortably hot gazebo in a little park right next to Piner. This venue was chosen by my sister because it was out of the way and not used for much. I'm sure she hadn't planned that the amateur HAM radio hobbyists would descend on the park and use all of it's parking spaces and most of it's area. Relegating us to the aforementioned gazebo.
As before for Kailee's birthday I had designed a special adventure surrounding the theme of the party, super heroes. So our intrepid partygoers were given crimefighting kits that came with yo-yo, paddle ball, bubbles, coloring book, and board book. Or as they were described a hypno-spinner, explosion extender, soporific suds, crime-fighting journal and super hero manual. Not to mention a hand sown cape with mask and utility belt to match. So our adventurers fought Dr Evil's paper airplane robot army then broke into his hightech lab (through the expando-bubble wall) and defeated his minotaur (using super speed to wind magic strings retrieved by the flying super heroes around him, all while the super strong super heroes held him down. Then they defeated Dr. Evil with their soporific suds and attack water balls.
As you can imagine this was incredibly tiring, but then it was off to watch our daughter's Dance Performance. Then we finally returned back home to pack some more. Sunday arrived and with is the movers (at 8:30) in the morning. They weren't too frustrated that we weren't completely packed, since they had bumped us forward and allowed us to pack while they moved out everything. They were exceptionally efficient so we were rushed to get everything packed in time. With everything out of our house we took a bit of a rest, before I had to take my daughter to her final Dance Performance. Then I returned to clean my house up for the Last Day party. Thank you to those of you who helped (since, of course, I wasn't finished cleaning when our guests arrived). The party allowed me to see all the friends I was leaving behind one last time. and there were alot of them we went from 4 PM until I don't want to say how late. Many lovely faces showed up so I could hug the stuffing out of them.
So it was, with very little sleep I proceeded to pack up the car to begin the journey. Unfortunately in our rush to decide what to take with us it turns out we were a little too excessive in our plans of what to take. So after much sweaty moving of things down to the car I needed to take a number of them to the UPS store to be shipped to myself. Even still we were pretty cramped as we piled into the car and headed south. By the time we finished our errands around Petaluma we didn not end up leaving until 4 PM (noticing a theme here). So we scooted on down to SLO, but we couldn't travel on to Bakersfield as was the plan. We stopped there, and closed down IHOP with Marie, Emir and Scarlet. Sarra retrieved her stuffed puppy Nilla (even though she'd forgotten about her). We stayed in the Rose Garden inn and I slept a blissful 10 hours.
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