On Your Mark, Get Set…Go!!!

Twenty-four hours before we left home, my prevailing thought was, “WHAT WERE WE THINKING???” Richard had many things to work on on the camper and a review coming up for work. I was trying to get us packed, finish up our co-op (which I teach for) and Creed had a giant paper/presentation due the day we were leaving. Whew!

We could not have done this alone, and sweet friends blessed us with recipes, babysitting, packing help, care packages, journals, printables with our theme verses, breakfast burritos (Thank you, Sursee Gal!! I had to give your awesome blog a shout out!), cookie dough for on-the-go, traveling playlists, a hand painted rooster that I’m going to treasure forever (I love chickens!!), and a delightful send-off party from our precious homeschool co-op friends. And in my current brain fog, I am sure I left things out. We are blessed with such fantastic friends!!

Our last day of co-op was Tuesday. We were aiming to leave shortly after co-op ended. Creed (a.k.a., Ronald Reagan) did an awesome job on his speech! We enjoyed parting hugs and home we went.

Richard’s last meeting ended, we finished up last minute tasks, and it was time to depart for our great adventure! We were pleased with how un-painful the traffic was, and Richard liked how the Yukon was handling the behemoth behind it. We stopped to grab sandwiches out of our fridge at dinner and had a hiccup when one of us forgot to put the entry steps back up. Vroom, vroom, vroom…BOOM! Those steps hit a curb. Oops. Richard was able to get them back up (but still out of whack) and on we went. Poor Behemoth! We arrived at Daisy State Park at about ten o’clock. Zzzzzzzzzzz!!