New Family Mascot – Ozzy Goes on Tour

We have adopted a goofy looking opossum stuffed animal that Dani won in a machine at Friendly’s in a town south of Akron, OH. His name is Ozzy. Stay tuned for more updates of Ozzy’s Tour locations.
















Our waitress, Alicia was extremely nice. Dani and Elle even took their picture with her and we gave her the address of our blog.

Leaving for Ohio

We left for Ohio on Friday night. The plan was to leave around 5, but it was 7pm before we got out of there. We made a short pit stop at the Connal’s to return their car (aka the red pimpmobile) that they so graciously allowed us to borrow – lots of tears. We sure will miss the best “old” neighbors in the world!

We (or rather Larry) drove for about 4.5 hours. We stopped at 5 motels until we found one with a vacancy. It was a Days Inn with a night club – weird heh? It was icky but it was a place to sleep and shower in the morning. We took off again about 9:00 the next morning. Here are a few lovely pictures of Larry having a great time driving, driving, driving, Dani sitting in the back seat looking like a budha and Elle hiding because she didn’t want her picture taken.
Larry plays silly games with himself while driving – going thru the alphabet seeing if he can name a band for each letter, calculating how much farther we have to go, telling us random bits of information about the cars that we pass, etc.

We sold Renee's car

We sold my car! Now when you see someone driving around town in my familiar orange Murano it won't be me, actually you won't see it anyway. We sold it to a couple in Abilene, TX. Dani and Elle were happy that it went to some Texan's like them.

The Bowin’s are HOME!

Hurray that the Bowin’s are home! We got to see them briefly on Thursday and Friday. Bummer that our overlap was not longer.

An Empty House and Sad Dogs

All of our "stuff" is gone. The house is oddly empty.... We're ready to get the show on the road and start our new adventures in Dubai.

We are camping out in our house tonight and tomorrow night then we head off to Ohio to visit Larry's family in Columbus and then mine in Geneva. My youngest sister is getting married on July 26. Larry and I will celebrate our 19th anniversary on the 22 too! Wow, that is a lot of years. We've been on many fun, exciting adventures together, but this one is by far the wildest.

I remember a few weeks before we were married we went camping and had several mishaps - I cut my head and head to get stitches and Larry fell over a waterfall and scraped up his leg. We said that we were putting the capital A in adventure. Who knew almost 20 years later we would really be putting the A in adventure.

Packing day

The movers arrived on Monday, July 14 (which also happens to be my good friend Karen's birthday and I forgot - :( ). Here are few pictures of our boxes. The house seems to empty. They will take the boxes away today. Our stuff will put on a truck and driven to a ship and then off to Dubai. It will take about 45 days to get our things. The girls will start school before our the shipment arrives. But that is ok, we will be just fine on minimal supplies and our adventurous attitudes.

Elle's 9th Birthday

Elle's birthday was on July 1 and her party was on July 13 with her friends. Some of them could not come because they were on vacation but it was still a blast.