Home Again
Eight days and many states later, we're back in our own beds. It's a drippy, gray Monday morning, totally appropriate for the end of vacation. We drove 15 hours south and found spring going full-bore: blooming flowers and trees, temps in the 50 and 60 range (the locals were saying how cool it was...we were lovin' it).
I had to clean up a pretty minimal number of cat messes when we got home at 1030 PM last night (Ferrari must have gotten into the old Kirkland brand food at one point), so things were pretty good while we were away, as confirmed by Jackie the cat sitter.
Yes, we forgot a few things: on the trip down, stuff for Bryan from Ellen. I had placed it in a completely illogical place (the basement bedroom closet), so I failed to trip over it/remember it with the rest of our luggage in the spare bedroom upstairs. I'm totally annoyed about that. Then on the return trip, we left a couple of blue ice packs in Chris and Lindsey's freezer, and forgot to bring up the no-sugar peach preserves from the Raleigh/State Farmers' Market mom requested. Oh well... All in all, there just wasn't as much time as we liked to spend with everyone, see everything and eat everything (although we did pretty well with that last item).
A few pics:
Spanish moss in Savannah National Wildlife Refuge
Container ship viewed from the roof of the Bohemian Hotel in Savannah, GA (where we enjoyed the chocolate-pecan-covered bacon)
Alligator in Middleton Place Plantation near Charleston, SC
Azalea hillside and bridge in Middleton Place
Blurry/low light/crappy old camera pic of the newest Kueffner family member, Colin Hubbard in Raleigh, NC