Saturday night – Plan B

Well. You guessed it. Gabes passport and Visa did NOT come today.. thank you USPS. Well. Let me modify that.. the good people at the USPS have been reallllly helpful.. its not ther fault that they are chronically understaffed, underpaid .. and their funding keeps getting reduced. They’ve been trying to help us locate this doc..

but.. we cant wait for it for Gabe to leave, so we kicked in Plan B.. instead of the two of us heading to Minneapolis with our Tons .. ok.. not tons.. technically (3×70 me ) + ( 2 x50 Gabe) plus our carry-ons ( ~2 x 40 ) plus our backpacks (~2 x+ 25) == 440 pounds of luggage between us. I’m able to help because with out United status I can carry more and heavier bags.

anyway.. Gabe packed up.. said goodbye (for a few weeks we’re taking her over in april) to his beloved nova and his very beloved mom. ( I cant believe I didn’t get a picture of gabe and diane that morning !) And me.. and. The snow and I took him to the airport..

I dropped off Gabe with his part of the luggage.. and just as I was driving away I got notified that they had tried to deliver his passport.. instead of leaving it for us….they left us a cryptic pink slip with no way of contacting anyone. I went to the Richmond post office.. which was closed .. but they oet me in anyway. They tried to help me locate the package. It wasn’t there They called the postmaster.. who offered to come in tomorrow (Sunday to see if it came in with the amazon stuff .. , they called the distribution center.. but no answer.

If they had just left the passport I would have actually had time to pick it up and make it to the airport with my luggage and fly with gabe..

but it was not to be..

instead I got at least one more day at home with Diane and nova.. which is always nice.

Gbaes on his way to see his grandma, his aunt and uncle and his cousins.

its been such a great time having him here in Vermont.

we are definitely going to miss him..
at the same time we are so excited for the adventure he’s starting in Germany !

Nite all, nite sam
-me