Nine days and counting

9 days to go...and look what was in my e-mail inbox this morning:

DenverPost.com *BREAKING NEWS*
Winter weather in the high country has forced the Colorado Department of Transportation to close several major roads.

I-70 is closed in both directions at Vail Pass.
US 6 is closed over Loveland Pass
US 40 closed over Berthoud Pass (local traffic is being allowed through Empire to the Henderson Mine)

Conditions are extremely windy, with blowing snow, poor visibility and hazardous road conditions, according to Stacey Stegman, CDOT spokesperson.

Great...and the weather forecast calls for snow on the day we fly out (the 24th.) I sure hope the weather calms down by the time our truck full of furniture is headed up through the mountains on I-70!

So we're getting down to the wire here...while tedious, the arrangements and the sorting through our possessions is really the easy part. But over the last week or two we've doing more and more "lasts" - Logan's last haircut with Lisa, our last trip to the Car Museum, etc. - and we've been saying goodbye to the people that we likely won't see again - doctors, hairdressers, grocery store clerks, etc. People who were an important part of our lives but, realistically, only for so long as we lived here in LA. It's been pretty tough to acknowledge that we're letting go of those connections that none of us thinks about on an everyday basis, but that keep us grounded in our community.

This week we start saying goodbye to our closer friends and eventually family, and I don't even want to think about how tough that's going to be. I'm getting teary just thinking about it.