I came close.
My husband drove away this morning with 3 pieces of "checked baggage" for the 3 of us, and 2 carry on bags, containing travel clothes for him and our daughter. And 6 bottles of wine (extra for extended family adults) and her backpack.
But we did good. So good, in fact, that when I was looking at the garment bag last night, I realized it had 2 entirely empty shoe pouches, and at the last minute, decided to pack the Birkies and wear the Crocs down to Texas on Saturday. So I'm up by a pair of shoes from my original goal - but only AFTER everything else was packed and room was available.
I have a very short list left of things to bring with me - so short, in fact, that if one of the items wasn't my last spare pair of undies (the others DID get packed, so I won't need to do nightly hand-laundry), I could put all of it in a reusable grocery bag. But I'll use my backpack instead - it zips shut and spares TSA from any unplanned underwear sightings.
So, just one more non-travel day to go - lots of errands to run to get the dogs and cats to their vacation homes, make sure we don't end up with any funny smells in the house on our return (MUST remember to run the garbage disposal!!!), and make the place look inhabited. It should be a busy day - enough so that it should go pretty quickly. And our flight's in the morning, thank goodness.
The daughter's friend opted to fly in the end. So she's sleeping today while the rest of the party is heading south. Through thunderstorms and tornado warnings, according to the weather channel. I'm sort of envious - it still beats work - but it will be a tiring drive at best.
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