Last Day and First Day

My last day of work didn't feel like my last day of work. I even tried to check work email today (but I have already been taken off so no more ejyee for me). We were trying to get out of the house by 3pm, but alas...we decided to stay to have dinner with Jennifer and Ray. At least, that's my story! It definitely wasn't because we weren't finished packing or that I had a breakdown at the house, jamming things into bags, boxes, etc. We didn't leave the house as clean as I would have liked, and we did forget a few things at the house, like sponges, dishwash soap and other random things under the sink. Oops.

Thankfully, we ended the evening with some YUMMY India Cook House. We ordered the normal Chicken Tikka Masala and Chicken Korma, with sides of garlic naan and veggie samosas. That totally hit the spot and I was definitely feeling much better. Plus it was great company.

Thanks Mitch, Ray, Joe, Stephen and Jennifer for this wonderful scrapbook page:


Don't worry, Jennifer made sure that we were removed by April 2, 2009. Seriously, I don't know if we would have been able to make the move without her. Especially since she offered to take additional stuff to the Goodwill and to Working Wardrobes for us and act as my storage unit for all my scrapbook supplies. We owe her big time. Like, BIG time.

We made it into Ridgecrest by Thursday at 11:30pm. This morning, we got up early and pretty much spent the entire day going through all of our stuff because we were literally just tossing things into bins and bags the day before and nothing was sorted quite right. By the end of the day, we had our Road Trip pile, our Peace Corps pile, and our Store for 2 Years at the Yee House pile. Kind of like Clean House, except that nothing was going away and it still seemed like we had way too much stuff. We ended up purging another box of things to take to Goodwill. We finally headed out of Ridgecrest around 7:30pm and only had to do one U-turn (we decided it would be a good idea to bring heavier coats with us on this roadtrip after all. No need to experience Sequoia Round 2).

Matrix packed to the brim and ready to go on our 2 month trip!

Now I am at the hotel in Kingman, AZ studying some Spanish (sort of). We had a pretty decent first day of our roadtrip (made it to Kingman in 4.5 hours) and only forgot eggs (yup, left the dozen eggs in Adam's parents' fridge). We also realized that we brought 6 chicken breasts, 6 tilapia filets, and 6 turkey burgers for the two of us. Drew and Jennifer aren't with us to help make a dent. Hopefully they stay frozen until Austin so we can grill out!

On the schedule for tomorrow- Route 66 Museum, Wal-mart for supplies, possibly get our tires rotated and then GRAND CANYON!! Can't wait!