7/30 - Say cheese, Z!

Grandmother and Aunt Patty hanker for a hunka cheese.  Everything's bigger in Texas, right?

Z tried to chat up an old bird, but Rooster was not impressed with the antics of today's youth.

He took an armadillo ride while I packed for the airport. Giddy up!  We are on our way home.

Z wonders if we'll go by steampunk spaceship.  We saw this contraption at the Austin airport. Cool, right?  I'll call from my layover in PHX. Love you!

We liked the airplane carpet at PHX.  Snazzy!

There was a "meltdown on the luggage carousel" at OAK, but we eventually got my suitcase back and are now home again, home again, jiggity jog.

7/28 - Z gets domestic goddess lessons

Aunt Patty stopped by with ridiculous amounts of food (thank you!) and some presents for the twins. 

Z got some housekeeping lessons from Grandmother's resident Domestic Goddess while we continued unpacking.  My goal was to get the kitchen done today, Texas heat be gol-darned.  (Tip: Avoid crawling into kitchen cabinets to clean and line them, if at all possible.)

Here is a shot of some of our unpacked boxes.  Normally, I would have tallied the sheets of paper we unwrapped from Grandmother's treasures and smoothed and refolded for giveaway, but let's just agree to call it "a lot."  OK?

I am calling victory on the kitchen.  We have 90% of it put away and have multiple clear surface areas.  This is better than my house any day...

7/27 - Z says "Move 'em up! Head 'em out!"

Z(ebra) and I are off to Austin, to help my mother unpack her new house.  Funny how this sounds like a vacation to me...  Here we are at the airport, missing the kids already.

Here is one of our pilots.  Sorry the picture is blurry, but we didn't want to hold up the boarding queue.

Time to buckle in!

Grandmother and Jason were happy to see me at box central.

All the frilly curtains must come down.  Here is Z with what I call the "wings of Zeus" curtain tie-backs.  Yeesh.