Errands Errands Errands

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While I've been working at the office, Sara has been handling the lion's share of the pre-trip tasks. Here's just a sample of what she's been doing:

• Arranged with the post office to hold our mail
• Arranged with our friend Terry to give us a ride to the airport
• Arranged with our friend Ayla to come over and water our plants while we're away (involved making her a duplicate key)
• Informed Chase bank about our trip (see earlier blog entry)
• Took a day-long class and renewed her massage license to prevent it from expiring while she's away
• Arranged with our car broker to take over selling our pickup truck while we're away (long story; we're trying to swap our Tacoma for a Subaru Outback)
• Arranged with the boarding stable and friends to take care of her horse Percy while we're away (involved buying oats, vitamins, etc.)
• Returned various library books
• Rescheduled various appointments
• Worked out her art supply kit for the trip (see below**)

Big hugs and kudos to my sweetie for taking care of all these errands!

A tired Sara at Cloud City Coffee. Shopping almost done!

I joined the non-stop preparation ride yesterday, and together we spent the whole Saturday loop-the-looping through further errands. I bought clothes for the trip...Sara got a bikini top (very cute!) to replace the one she ordered at Lane Bryant that due to a delay isn't going to arrive until after we're gone (grrr)...we bought a second digital camera...many other shops and sundries were involved. It was 10:00 pm by the time we finally toppled home and spilled our big plastic bags onto the bed.

We're almost ready to go...

** Regarding Sara's art supply kit, she's eager to do a lot of painting and sketching in Hawaii, and in fact she's going to keep her artist's blog going while we travel, posting what she draws. Yes, that's right -- we'll both be blogging our way through Hawaii! Are we a modern couple or what? You can compare our blogs as we go! Hers is at: http://flyingponystudios.blogspot.com/.

--Matt