Vacation!

The whole family is in Colorado now, and the real vacation's about to start. We spent the better part of the last two days helping Sumner and Kristan move many years of belongings into their newly refinished basement. Before they finished it, the basement was just a big open space filled with boxes and boxes and more boxes. Filled. And how it's been finished into the most beautiful space - offices for each of them, a guest bedroom, and a fair amount of storage space. And amazingly enough, it seems that everything is going to fit!

For the kids it wasn't much of a vacation, but for me - disengaging my mind from the pressures of life - it is the perfect vacation. I get to help organize things - my brain's favorite activity - and help my adored brother at the same time. What could be better?

The kids are enjoying each other's company I think - they spend their non-work hours in their living space in the basement (yes, there's even room for three air mattresses and the junk from three grown kids in the basement AFTER all the boxes were moved back in!) on the two laptops we brought.

Today is fun day for them, though. Elitch Gardens - BIG roller coasters. I'm not a roller coaster fan for the most part - the Disneyland California Adventure rides are about as challenging as I can get between my motion sickness and a tweaky back. So my plan is to stay home and unpack boxes - fun for me, too!

Yesterday I spoke with our housesitter briefly, and she tells me that Sparky is doing really well. Yea!