Spent another day packing, washing and organizing at Mom’s then headed to Baton Rouge to meet my dad and his wife for dinner. Acme Oyster House!! Yummy!!! Had a wonderful visit with them then drove up to Memphis to see my brother and his family that we were unable to catch on the was down. The drive was uneventful until about 10 minutes shy of my brother’s house… blue lights in the rearview! Billy was doing 70+ in a 55! I just knew we’d be hauled off for grand theft auto and transporting firearms (Billy was supposed to bring his guns to his sister’s house but that didn’t pan out so they were still with us). Between Billy’s Kentucky license, Mom’s Mississippi plate on her truck and the guns, I began to mentally prepare myself for a night in the slammer! Billy told us as we waited for the PoPo to walk up, “I was just going with the flow” to which Kaigan and I promptly exclaimed, “No! You were flying past the flow!” Mr. Police Officer came to the window to Billy’s waiting license and profuse apologies. He kindly gave Billy a citation for 5 over and said they’d throw it out. He never asked the first question! Not for registration, proof of insurance or even who the heck does this car belong to! THANK YOU MR. POPO!! Now I do think there was supposed to be a court appearance but, well, we’ll be gone. Mark and Liesl thought they could handle it with all the policemen they know.
We arrived at Mark’s house about 1am, tip toed 8 of us in the sleeping house and went to bed without waking anyone! Bright and early at 7:30am the cousins were up and at em! Yay! Ha! We had a blast though. The little kids played everything. The big kids (i.e.-everyone over 14) played Hedbanz. If you haven’t played before, you must We laughed til our sides hurt. Especially when Billy was trying to cheat by taking an answer from my 3 year old nephew. He saw Billy’s card was a ladder and was trying to tell Billy. Only he could only say “yaddle” so Billy is guessing “paddle”! It was so hilarious! Probably had to be there but…
While at Mark’s, we received an email containing our house closing papers. We printed, signed, scanned and emailed them back. Dang, that was easy! And, hey, we are homeowners again! Hooray! The other very exciting and unexpected news we received via email was that our container that was due to arrive in New Plymouth on 5 April (trying to switch to the kiwi way of dating things) was now expected to arrive on 26 February!!!! PRAISES to the LORD!!! Instead of 6 weeks without our things, we’d only have to wait 10 days!!! Really!?!?! Dare we get too excited??
We ate a late lunch with the Goscienskis then headed back to Mom’s.
Not much longer now!!!
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