My daughter, Katie, has been trying to run away to Colorado. It hasn't been easy. Actually it's something she has been thinking about for the last year. Her sister Jenny just had her husband, William, move to Afghanistan for a year courtesy of the US Army. Jenny has wanted help with Robyn (10) and Evan (4). Katie was laid off a month ago (a good thing) and finally decided to make the move. She had everything packed up a week ago Saturday ready to load into the U-Haul. She went camping at Baker Lake planning to return Tuesday to load the truck and leave Wednesday morning. An hour and a half after setting up camp she broke her right leg and badly sprained her left ankle.

Sunday she went to the ER and had the leg set, a temporary cast put on, and a recommendation of surgery for the right ankle. To make a long story short, she made it back to the Island Tuesday and I drove her to Everett Bone and Joint on Wednesday where they rereset her leg. She had a spiral fracture of the tibia. They put an inflatable boot cast on and said to have her have it checked in two weeks. It may or may not need surgery. In either case she won't be driving for two months so there was a lot of plan changing going on. In the end the U-Haul was loaded Friday night and her brother Robby volunteered to drive her to Colorado. We took Katie and her son Mike out to a late lunch-early dinner Saturday and dropped them off at Katie's mom's where the loaded U-Haul was waiting. Robby got off work and Katie, Mike, their dog Shorty, were on the road to Colorado by 7:30 with Robby at the wheel. They are now somwhere between Whidbey Island and Fort Carson, Colorado.

Mike and Katie ready to go

Mike and Shorty

We miss them.

update, monday: They left Saturday night around 7:30 and arrived at Jenny's in Colorado Springs at 5am this morning. The truck is unloaded and Robby is flying back tonight. Everyone made it alive.