prep
prepping for science getaway was really easy. for me. all i had to do was make the reservations for the ranch, planes, and car. easy peasy. was done months in advance. well, maybe month. the beautiful and talented alisa did all the hard work. grandpa could stay with the boys for most of the time. but we needed aunt julie to go to back to school night. grandpa had to leave after getting the boys to school on friday. so aunt julie had to pick them up after work and miniatures club to pick us up at the airport. alisa wrote out the schedule in great detail for every single day. when i was a kid, school started at the same time every day. and we had the class schedule every day. apparently, that's not the way things work any more. we packed a whole lot of stuff. cause it's like seriously cold at 2400 meters. i helped. i should have helped more. cause i forgot the toenail clippers. oh well. had to use the itty bitty pinky clippers on my grody stubs. i switched companies recently. and i didn't yet have the medical card proof of insurance. i had an email. and group numbers. we printed those. fortunately they weren't needed. they also change again at the end of the month. so we printed those too. just in case we got stuck in colorado. early snows. or something.