Saturday January 3. Rainy.
It may seem odd, but I for one, am always a bit apprehensive, in a good way, when we go on a lengthy trip. It is difficult to explain but we have to psychologically change our mindset for a trip like this. Absolutely everything that we are so comfortable and familiar with at home is gone. We will be in a world of strangers until we meet with Jim and Gail on January 9. And even after that they will be the only thing familiar to us for two months.
Meeting with Keith and Jenny will be different. We will be right back into a comfort zone with them, like we last saw them last weekend, amazing.
However, all of our routines will change, nothing will be familiar, even the accents and voices will be different, foods, beds, toilets. Sleep routines, noises at night etc., etc. We love it, but it is a different world. Fellette loves it because: goodbye dishes, dinners, bed making, cleaning, driving, grocery shopping and on and on it goes.
Tomorrow night is on an airplane, the first of many strange beds we will occupy in the next two months!
Speaking of strange beds, I try not to think about who has been in these beds and what has gone on in these beds. Clean sheets certainly help but when it comes to pillows I understand why some people travel with their own pillows! A towel as a pillow-cover gives one a bit more sense of possible cleanliness but is terribly uncomfortable. The best thing is to jump into bed with good thoughts on sanitation and hope that you have eaten enough dirt as a child to have a half decent immune system! [And lie on your back!]
Daughter and Granddaughter going over their 'duties' while we are away
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