God Bless Our Northampton Posse

As New Englanders would put it, what a wicked awesome weekend. Our Northampton friends - Scooter, Natalie, Evan, Erin, Mike, Francis, Gabe, Sarah, Bill, Emily, Neil, Jill - have seen us off in style.

A Friday of packing, cleaning and running around was capped off with a hysterical show put on by the stylings of DON'T. Saturday was a mish mosh - held a tag sale with all the loons of Northampton stopping by; headed here for several hours; then swam in a beautiful swimming hole behind the Deerfield Academy.




We then ate delicious Southern BBQ; saw the lyrical stylings of OUCH; and saw the sun start to rise after what was deemed the after party to end all after parties. On Sunday, we finally ate lobster roles for the first time, courtesy of Webster's Fish Hook, then began the teadiness process of moving things no one wants to move, let alone arrange in to a neat and secured 8x8 square space in a trailer we won't see for two months. Luckily, all the furniture, including the infamous 200 pound sleeper sofa, got into the truck (thanks Scooter, Natalie and Evan.) The visionary team work of Erin and Mike got everything Tetris-style into the space with room to spare, then Francis brought us much needed pizza for dinner (yeah, even though we have been eating massive high calorie meals lately, the pounds are coming off from moving box upon box and trash bag after trash bag to the dumpsters.)

Now it's Monday morning, and it's really difficult to believe we're driving across the country starting today. Many tears were shed in the past days, and the waterworks will be on full blast today. We are hoping to make it to Indiana by tonight, so as Richard put it smooth sailing... with a steady wind at our backs. We'll be in touch tonight once we've landed.