Clean-Up and Drive

Yesterday afternoon, around 3pm, we made a family decision to leave town and head south to Charlotte. All week we have been preparing for "Irene" by going shopping to stock up on essential items (batteries, canned goods and brownie mix) and were fully prepared to ride her out at home. BUT, you know whenever you get that feeling, you really should listen to it. I'm not sure if it was my 'mommy gut', my 'uh-oh gut' or just that everyone was calling us asking us if we were going to get out of the beach. But, we ultimately decided that two little girls did not need to stick it out and listen to the 90+ mph winds, the constant rain and watching Mike and I worry that a tree could fall on our house at any point.

So, we spent the evening in the backyard putting away everything that could become hazerdous or missle-like and our yard has never looked cleaner :).

The girls got to play in their sandbox, dresses, skirts and all.

And, today...

We headed out of town.

Mike had to go to work for half a day and mostly for a mandatory 10am meeting, he does work for the Coast Gaurd after all. If it gets really bad, he may be called in to help with search and rescue efforts!

At, 1pm, we were on the road and headed to my parents in Charlotte...again.

We had just gotten back a week ago tomorrow, I had just finished laundry from our trip and we were getting back into our daily routine but back in the car we went, Maci too!

I packed light, made sure to empty the fridge taking all food that we could eat, hooked up the dvd player, turned Miss Emma around in her seat (yes, we turned her...not sure if I could have made another 6+ hr trip if we didn't), made a nice place for Maci in the back and off we went. We hit major traffic on Rt. 58, not the place you want that to happen! We saw lots of utility trucks heading north and huge medial state assistant trucks too! Very stressful to say the least but very grateful we were able to get out of town.

...to be contined...