Twas the night before road trip

It's been a pretty awful week, so my god am I looking forward to vacation. Since 2012 I've gotten one big road trip in a year that takes more than a day of driving, and this is it. I get to check off another state I've never been to (West Virginia!)! I get to spend time with my awesome family! I get to see new things and Instagram them all! (@thereandbackblog, just saying.) And tonight I get to do trip prep!

It's nothing too big. It means that dinner tonight is whatever from the fridge that might go bad before Monday. I'm cleaning just enough to make sure the place is habitable when people come over to get me. I make sure the trash is getting taken out, because it's 84 degrees inside my apartment at almost 9 pm and I do not want to come home on Monday to the smell of hot trash. I did dishes for the same reason. I make sure I'm packed, which I'd done, and then this ended up being the weather this weekend.

So yeah, now I get to repack. I also try to do all the things I won't have time to do tomorrow, like making sure everything I need is placed together so I don't forget anything, and filling water bottles to bring on the road, and trying to see if I have a container I can put coconut oil in so I don't have to bring a giant jar along with me. I gave myself a manicure, because it looks better when inevitably there are pictures of me holding things.

And mostly I get to count down hours and bug Nick with things like "AT THIS TIME TOMORROW WE'LL PROBABLY BE TRYING TO FIND A GAS STATION."