Post Script

Couldn't resist one more post.  This blogging business is kind of addicting.



Long Island Sound the day after

We seem to be attracting severe weather - Jerusalem has a 50 year snow storm while we are there and now in New York the first blizzard of 2014.  Luckily it is so cold that the snow is very light and easy to shovel. Toby and Gabriella are getting a real taste  of winter weather - shoveling, scraping windshields and sledding yesterday in 14 degree weather.  They seem impervious to the cold but I froze my butt off and couldn't take it. Had to retreat to the car and turn the heat on. Even Michelle tolerated it better than I and she is constantly cold in San Francisco.

Now we are doing the final packing and getting ready to go.  One of my recurring nightmares is traveling with an enormous amount of very heavy luggage - so this is definitely a 'welcome to my nightmare' moment.  Five big suitcases at the weight limit, a small suitcase, back packs, violin, clarinet, various other carry ons - and my fantasy is packing like the Clooney character in Up In The Air... but it occurs to me, we are coming off the greatest experience and I should stop whining and get on with completing it.  We'll be home soon.  (And then we have a day to put our house back together and get ourselves mentally ready for school and work - not the ideal planning scenario but such is life.)

And now this is really it! Crossing Rashbag is officially signing off. Next step is figuring out my next blog topic :).  Love to all.  Dan