"almost heaven"

this morning we said goodbye to Wade's aunt's cabin "almost heaven" and headed down the mountain back to Fort Collins, where we picked up the Tank and discovered that I have absolutely no idea where my keys are.

after a short (but frantic) delay, tom loaned me his key to Penelope and we set off to Greeley, where we signed the papers to our new house.

then we wrapped a present for one of tom's cousins in our car (in their driveway . . . luckily they weren't home). It turned out better than the last present we wrapped in the car last night, when what i thought was tissue paper turned out to be thick, thick wrapping paper. It turned out looking . . . interesting.

in anycase, we've been knocking around Greeley for the last five hours or so waiting for 3:45, when we get to empty our cars into our new garage. how exciting!!

then we're off to the Denver airport, where we will leave the Tank in long term parking for Tom's sister Ellie to pick up when she gets back from visiting Momma Teresa in California. Then we head back to Grand Junction, hopefully arriving before midnight. ha. ha. hopefully the roads will be MUCH better than they were when we came up. seriously, they couldn't be much worse.

yesterday was a really warm day (60 degrees) and i was thinking, "okay, i can handle this Colorado weather." Yeah. that was yesterday. today it's cold. How cold? I don't actually know. But cold. I'm glad I brought lots of sweaters. Sweaters on top of sweaters . . .

so anyway, now we're just waiting. We'll be in GJ until Christmas, drive Tom's dad's truck (no name. . . yet) back to RSM the day after Christmas, pack like mad on the 27 and 28th, and pick up the u-haul and load it and drive as far as we can on 29 December. Then we'll hang out in GJ until we get good weather and then be in Greely by 2 January to unload everything into the house. Then the real fun begins. or is the "real fun" the packing? I can't remember . . .

so packing party at our place 27 and 28 December. Come one, come all!!!