The Trip Begins

April 1st, Tuesday

The preliminaries are over. The official trip has started!! We’re on our way Atlanta.

The Number 2 Son move to DC (actually Arlington, Va.) began on Friday. We caravanned ... Steven in his filled-to-the-brim Budget Rent-a-Truck; Nancy in Steven’s Volvo (stick shift so Dad can’t drive it); and, me in the Honda Odyssey (our home away from home for the baseball trip).

Saturday → we unloaded the truck and got Steven’s stuff up to his apartment in record time … 3 hours. Before we started organizing, we turned in the truck, ate lunch (great Veal Parmagiana), and went shopping – the first of many of many trips to buy stuff for Steven’s apartment. We figure we’ll be saving money with Steven out of the house so we bought him whatever he needed. Besides, Nancy likes to shop for someone else.

Food, bathroom paraphernalia, kitchen stuff $500
Getting a kid out of the house and on his own Priceless

(just kidding, Steven)

Steven also has his first houseguests … Aunt Sara and Uncle Karl Wokan.

Sunday → organize, organize, Nancy and Sara go to the Cherry Blossom Festival, organize, nap, organize, dinner @ Chili’s, organize.

Monday → more food shopping (Harris Teeter is a very nice grocery store), more organizing. The quest for good pizza in Arlington begins – a place called Mom’s Pizza. Not bad, but not like Dewey’s (for those in Cincinnati) or like good NY pizza. The quest continues. We also celebrate Steven’s birthday 5 days early. The oven gets used for the first time for Steven’s birthday cake.

Today (Tuesday April 1st) → Steven cooks breakfast and after some chitchat and hugs, we’re on our way. Atlanta here we come. To Cinde and Jerry Huffman’s house we go!