This weekend, I spent pretty much the entire weekend in Bellingham, where I cut up a lot of fruit, among other things.
I wasn't planning on staying the whole weekend, but somehow, I just never went home until Sunday evening. So that pretty much blew my 'go home and accomplish lots of stuff' plan.
I am, however, managing to complete some important tasks before I leave. Things like watching the rest of the season of Angel, so we can delete it off of TiVo and have enough room to record all of the new Monk and Dead Zone episodes that will be airing while we're gone. I have also been looking up various parks and other places to stop at along the way, and creating a document that notes the major towns on our route and how far it is to the next major town, so that if we really need to buy ice cream, we'll know where our next opportunity is.
Other chores that need to be completed are watching the rest of the Arrested Development shows, and printing out my list of activities that the children might use to occupy themselves in the car. Because, you know, the 84 hours of audio books, 40 hours of DVDs and the gameboys with at least a dozen games they've never played before might not be enough for the 110 hours of driving we'll be doing.
After that stuff is all done, I'll toss a sleeping bag and maybe a change of clothes in the car, you know, whatever's clean and lying about, and then we'll be off.
Okay, I kid. I am also spending time figuring out what sorts of non-entertainment items we will need to bring. And I'm approaching the time now where I can actually start setting stuff out to pack, as opposed to just making lists, then promptly losing the list, then starting over again.
The girls get out of school on their last day at 11:30, and I'm hoping to be on the road by 12:30 that day. That might be a bit optimistic, but I refuse to give up my hopes that one week, two days and one hour from now, we'll be on our way to Ellensburg.
Posted by Rachel at June 15, 2004 12:02 PM