Saying Goodbye

And this is it.  We could be back, but also probably not to this condo here.  One last glimpse of Ba-Ba's desk here, and a last-minute decision to keep one particular sculpture, and we were out the door there.  

Speaking of which, here's the door.  Madison took all these pictures today, just some last glimpses of a day where we turn the corner to go in a new direction, hopefully a good one.  

The sun rose this morning, and as we've been all week, we were up early with not much sleep through the night.  Madison took this picture over the balcony, and this picture below at the living room area, one last time.  It was nice place.

We were loading the car after this, cramming both cars as full as we possibly could.  A couple of last-minute items were left in the lobby area.  I meant to go back and get them, but then for some reason Madison and I thought it would be funny to leave them on the table there beside the floral display.

She took a picture to show our culpability.  It's a Saturday, so the only record of who did this heinous act will have to be reviewed on film.  I'm sure the viewer will only roll her eyes.

We had a few chores this morning, getting gas, dropping off cable supplies and getting a meal at the Chick-Fil-A there.  Other than that, we were off and running, as you can see above.  That's Uncle George driving with Nana, and they were following us up Dunlawton Drive there, right to I-95, and northward.  We had a lot of stops along the way at rest areas, as we wanted to give Nana sufficient time to stretch her legs and use the rest rooms.  We left later, but we were moving pretty quickly, and surprisingly, we got through Henry Country rather quickly.  We got through Crawford County even more quickly.  That's an I-75 joke there.  

Here's a map of the Eastern part of Crawford County, and you can see that tiny sliver of I-75 that travels through.  I think it's about 50 feet that you spend inside Crawford County.  They ought to take advantage of that with some sort of billboard or advertisement or big water tower or at least a rest stop.  It could actually be one of those 'blink-and-you-miss-it' sort of entire counties.

Anyway, we got home early in the evening, and spent some time unpacking.  It's cool outside, almost like it is fall or something!  It was easy to sleep tonight -we were all exhausted after the long drive, the unpacking, and the setting up the inflatable bed and so on for Uncle George.

But we did it, and after reading tonight, and after prayers, we were in bed quickly.  Some of us have to get up early tomorrow for church!