Packing, Pinkeye, Planes

There will be radio silence from here for the next few weeks. I will try and post if I can, but between packing (the truck comes to take our stuff in exactly a week), Amelia coming down with Pinkeye thus requiring massive amounts of laundry, and we're packing for a long plane ride followed by an even longer vacation. We will be moving out and settling on our current house, spend the night at hotel, and then getting on a plane for vacation. We are very excited about the trip, but the plane ride will be interesting. We've taught Amelia to say "Hawaii" and we're working on "Aloha." And we have about three hours of Elmo videos downloaded to the iPad. There are also stickers, a small Elmo doll, and other toys she hasn't seen before to keep her entertained. Also, Benadryl in case of emergency, defined as reaching parental maximum levels of crying/whining/screaming.

On the way home we're stopping in San Francisco for about 36 hours. We will fit in a trip to my mom's renovated house, a work meeting for me, bridal dress shopping for my sister, and an engagement party for my sister and fiance including going to a Giants game. When we land back in DC we will be homeless. Thankfully, after one night in a hotel we'll be in a short term apartment, that allows pets, for about 3 weeks before we're in the new house. So please don't send us any mail because who knows when that's going to be figured out. Unless it's booze, because we packed that last night.

The packing is going pretty well. We've got 95% of the basement, all of the living room and coat closet, about 50% of the kitchen, and 50% of our bedrooms packed. And that's just the stuff currently in the house. We already packed up all the stuff in the storage unit. And to answer the question Matt asked, we own approximately 7 dozen pieces of glassware (wine glasses, champagne flutes, margarita glasses, etc). I don't think he really wanted to hear the answer.

We keep telling Amelia and Teddy that we're moving but I don't think either of them understands. Teddy is getting suspicious of all the boxes and Amelia is trying to climb them.