On the Road Again ...

I can't believe I haven't written a blog post since Wed., and it's already midnight on Friday. Oh dear! Where have I been the last 2 days? On the road ...

Yesterday (after only 5 hours of sleep) I hit the road at 9:00 a.m. and arrived in Bend, OR at 5:30 p.m. Today (after another night of less than 5 hours of sleep) I hit the road in Bend at 9:00 a.m. and arrived home at 6:30. (The one hour delay today was the fact that I hit Seattle at peak rush hour. Yuck!) So, I covered 900+ miles in 2 days, and came home exhausted. Why am I up, then? I went to bed at 7 pm, read until 8 pm, slept until a little one woke me up at 9:15 pm, lay in bed until 10 pm, and decided to get back up for a couple of hours. Now, it's almost time to head back to bed; since I have to hit the road again tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. for another long day.

Why on earth did I go to Bend for a 15 hour visit? I took all the seats out of my big van and used it as a moving van. I did the same 2 day move a year and a half ago when Cassie moved to Bend. But ... no ... I did not go down this week to bring Cassie home. Sad! I went to Bend this time to move Miss Heidi to Washington. (Did you notice she was added to our new family pics at the top of the blog?) Yes, Gregg's lovely lady has moved to town. Yea!!! And ... as an extra benefit, I had a wonderful dinner with Cassie (and my two traveling buddies), after which we stayed up until midnight eating Turtle Cheesecake and visiting. Always much fun to spend time with her, even if just for a few hours.

And, for this wonderful 2 days of driving, I did take along a couple of my young ones to keep me company. Gregg rode with us yesterday, in order to drive Heidi's car back "home". So, today I had a lovely day with Hosanna and Elijah. Little E. is an amazing traveler at such a young age. He kept thanking me for taking him on the trip. Thanking me for 18 hours in his car seat in 2 days??? Cool kid! And, this is his 5th Oregon trip in the past 7 months. He sure loves to visit his big sister, Cassie. He actually now knows how to count the towns along highway #97 (after we go over Mt. Hood on #26), so that he will know when we are close to Bend. And, he gave me directions to Heidi's house, since I hadn't been there before.

Oh yes ... we head back to Oregon in 2 1/2 weeks, but not quite as far as Bend. We are definitely a traveling family! I'm sure glad our gas prices have dropped in the past couple of months.