Katie is off

This morning I was up at 3:30a.m. to take Katie to the airport shuttle bus from Boulder to Denver. We left the house at 3:55 and got to the bus stop at exactly 4:15, just as the bus was arriving.

              Katie in line for the bus

                         Bon Voyage, Katie! 

Her flight was at 8:00 a.m, so she got there in plenty of time. She is flying to Boston. The original plan was to leave at 4am for a 4:40 bus. But when I came out to the kitchen to meet her at 3:45, she said she had just learned online that the schedule had changed. The busses left at 4:15 and 5:15. I said, let's try for the 4:15, and we made it, mainly because we hit every single light in Boulder green and at that hour there was no traffic. 

Going back, we arrived at the Shays Sunday evening at about 7:30. Betsey looks good. She has shingles, on top of everything else, so is very uncomfortable - and on her "good" side, the right side. So movement is even more difficult. And her doc says she is suffering from "chemo brain" - mental fuzziness. But the tumor is stable at the moment. She and Rob have more trips in the works - to L.A., Miami, and maybe even Scotland!! She is determined to make every day count. 

Yesterday we hung out at home and listened to the wind blow all day and night, gusts up to 75 mph! It was incredible. Not uncommon here, I guess. Ellen folded laundry much of the day. Katie packed. Rob cooked. Betsey and I sat and chatted. We watched the news and followed the seismic changes following the unexpected death of Judge Scalia. What a time!