We stopped by mom's yesterday to set up a new portable covered clothes rack for her coats and to hook up her stereo system. Classical piano music was playing softly when we left. She was happy. It was the final job for Michael and the last thing to do from the move.
From there, we drove the 75 miles to Jay and Nancy's for Jay's 80th birthday party with friends and family we had not seen since their daughter's wedding two years ago. The food was Spanish, all prepared by Janet and her husband Mike. Everything was off the hook. We stayed way too late, helped to do the dishes and clean up and got home well after 8:00. A long day.
A short interlude: We got lost. After leaving their house, we had to connect up with a road that goes through a long pass over hills between valleys. We tried a short cut trying to find this road but failed, had to backtrack and lost about 10 minutes or so. We made it over the pass, hit the other freeway and shortly up the road in the rain, traffic skidded to a halt. A truck had very recently jackknifed blocking all lanes, lots of cars were involved, the smell of fuel was in the air and the police had yet to arrive. People were out of their cars and no one appeared injured. We snuck around it on pavement near the fast lane and got out of there. The freeway was closed minutes later. No. 1 - we missed being involved in this accident and grateful that we got lost earlier. No. 2 - we were so thrilled to get around it before the freeway was closed.
This afternoon, we are going to another party of a famous retired race car driver. I am going to need a few days to recover from all of this fun!
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