Three Days to Liftoff

Susan and I leave Tuesday morning for LA, and will be spending the night at the Laguna Riviera Resort in Laguna Beach before leaving for NZ late Wednesday evening.  We didn't want to take chances on the midwest weather by flying to LA and on to NZ on the same day, having had plenty of experience with canceled flights the past year or so.  Rebecca and Lillian will arrive Wednesday afternoon, and the four of us catch the 10:00 pm Air New Zealand flight to Aukland....13 hours non-stop, arriving Friday morning.  Guess we should have flown out on Sunday evening, which, thanks to crossing the date line, would have let us miss Monday. I ask you: what better day of the week could there possibly be to miss? I'll keep that in mind for next time.  Scott and Claira will be a couple days behind us since Claira has a few exams to take before spring break.

Susan has been clearing out all the leftovers from the refrigerator, the last piece of cherry pie is gone (sob, sob), and all the stuff we are taking is piled up in the spare bedroom, to be crammed into suitcases tomorrow.  We better leave soon or all the food in the house will be gone, and I'll be reduced to eating 10 year old freeze dried food left over from backpacking trips.  Maybe a friendly neighbor (hint, hint) would save me from that fate?  ;-)  Jim