To day was our final push we made or las trips to goodwill and the dup. The pile of stuff Gabe is bringing by car.. or we’re carryin on our next trip is getting really small !

The pile of boxes we took to UPS was taller than diane.. and these pics dont show even half of it. 

After all of the dropping off and shipping, Gabe headed out to his mandolin lesson. . After his leasson, Gabe picked us up and we went out a nice dinner at the moon and sixpence.. we listened to soem music and ate fish and choips.. Gabes mandolin teacher Rene and his freind and gutarmaker Jeff were tehre too. We got to talk to them again. thei is our third time gettign to talk to Rene. What a wonderful guy. super kind.. he’s calm and reflective. I was not surprised to here that went to Goddard college back in the 60’s .. 

after dinner, Gabe took us back to our airbnb. we said good bye to him.. we’d said bye to nova earlier. I thk we’ll be back in less than 3 weeks.. . 

We are so proud of gabe.. even thought he’s got so much on his plate right now .. he was a wonderful host .

nite all, nite sam
-me