Nick was scheduled to work 10-5 this day. So I had most of the day. I ran some errands and eventually took the dogs to the “pet resort” for the weekend. Getting them to the pet resort was a bit of an adventure. I drive a current generation Rav-4, so it’s a bit high off the ground for our aging dog Quinn. Quinn has been diagnosed with autism and anxiety by those of us working/who have worked in special ed. On Tuesday I took the dogs to the vet for vaccines and when he went to jump back in the car he jumped a bit short, so now he is scared to try again. It was 90*, with pre-Tropical Storm humidity, and here I was trying to wrangle a 60 pound dog into the back of my SUV. Gizmo enjoyed the show…
Then we got to the pet resort and they were only allowing one household in at a time, something I realized after the dogs were already out of the car, so we had to hang out in the parking lot for a solid 10 minutes. The struggle is real!
Then I went home and packed the car with virtually everything except Nick’s suitcase, which still had a couple items left that were needed.
Around 4 I got a text from Kim that they had gotten to the resort and the room was pretty much an oversized hotel room. No worries, we all like each other, and there’s lots to do, so how much will we really be in the room? She also sent me pictures of the awesome view from our room so that was exciting.
Around 4 I got a text from Kim that they had gotten to the resort and the room was pretty much an oversized hotel room. No worries, we all like each other, and there’s lots to do, so how much will we really be in the room? She also sent me pictures of the awesome view from our room so that was exciting.
At 4:45 (you know, 15 minutes before he was supposed to get out of work), I got a text from Nick that he had just sent guests on a test drive. CRAP. When a sale starts there is NO way to predict how long he will be. We agreed that I would order takeout that is portable and would be fine if he ate it cold for pick up at 6, and we would figure it out from there.
Just before 6 I headed for our favorite local restaurant, The Everyday Cafe, and saw Nick coming off the highway as I passed the exit. Phew. I picked up our dinner (Monkey-turkey, cheese, apple, bacon, and honey mustard on a croissant) for dinner, as well as cans of local root beer and doughnuts for both of us, to increase our sugar to get us through the evening. Google Maps was showing 2 hours and 40 minutes door to door, and the outer bands of Fay were already arriving, bringing the potential for monsoon-induced slow downs.
I got home, and we ate and got on the road a little after 6:30. Ordinarily a Friday night trip to Maine would be a traffic nightmare, but...COVID. We did encounter some pretty heavy fog long before we even reached the coastal side of NH, and we drove in a mix of fog and scattered monsoons for the remainder of the trip. But, we made it to the Sheepscot Harbour Village Resort by 9:30, and we were greeted in the parking lot by my in-laws, who helped us unload the car so we only had to make one trip across the parking lot. Road-tripping during a pandemic requires a lot of stuff!
We visited for a couple of hours, and then eventually went to bed, with a light shining brightly just outside the door to the unit. WHO installs hotel exterior entrance doors with large glass windows, with no curtain across it, with a bright light outside the door?! We all slept pretty soundly once we adjusted to the not very dark room, though.
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