We made it to Vancouver, WA! The movers came at 9:30 am on
Friday and left around 3:00 pm. We started with two and ended up with 4 guys by
about 12 or 1. I’m not sure they needed the extra help, but the two extra
packers moved faster than one of the two original ones. We had bought donuts
and coffee for the team, but no one drank any of the coffee and only two had
donuts. They did finish off our orange juice and beef jerky though...
I ran into work for ~1 hour on Friday afternoon to turn in
my badge and parking sticker. After goodbyes I came home to an empty apartment.
Well, empty except for the piles of stuff left in our bedroom that were
supposed to fit into one car. It is a good thing that we had two cars for our
first leg to Vancouver, it allowed us to randomly throw stuff into both cars
and gives us an extra 10 days to sort what we actually want and can fit in the
one car we are driving to DC.
After an uncomfortable night on my sister’s self-deflating
air mattress, we spent Saturday frantically cleaning the apartment and stuffing the cars. Late
on Saturday we landed and slept for a long time! An air mattress one night and
then a few on a 20+-year-old mattress really makes you miss the Tempurpedic you’ve
been sleeping on for years.
As of day 3 in Vancouver, we haven’t gone through anything of
our extra stuff and haven’t even finished unloading the second car. We’ll see
how rushed we are this time next week. We begin our drive to DC on May 9th,
I’m still holding out hope that Yellowstone will be clear enough to make it
worth a 2-night stay. I’ve always wanted to see the park, but early May isn’t
ideal. (At least there will be a lot
fewer tourists if the snow is still a few feet deep.)
After Yellowstone, (if
we make it there), we have two options. 1) Head over to South Dakota and
then east. 2) Head down to Denver, CO and then east. We have a few friends in
Denver, but I’d much rather visit Badlands and Mt. Rushmore in SD. We’ll see
where we end up, I’ve got a spreadsheet full of various routes and options.
Hopefully S will approve one of them before we pull out of town next week.
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On the other front, we’ve nicknamed Baby Streett “Tuesday”
just so we have something to call him/her. Tuesday is nice and active, wiggling
and kicking. Although, Tuesday does like to sleep when someone other than mommy
is paying attention. I have to go and get a pertussis (whooping cough)
vaccination because of the outbreak. Hopefully Tuesday won’t mind. We’ve
reached the halfway point and with him/her kicking away, there is no doubt that
this thing is real and coming quickly. O_O Wish us luck!
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