Plumbing and lug nuts and fruit flies
Last week we mostly got ready for our trip to California. Friday night, as we were doing the last dishes before we left, the sink started leaking. Mike went and looked at it and found that some idiot somebody had taken two pieces of pipe, one of which was threaded and one wasn't, and just shoved them together as if that made an appropriate join. We had to leave it unfixed (just shoved together again) in order to leave on our trip, so hopefully it stays working until tomorrow when Mike can fix it. On Saturday we drove out to California. The drive there went fairly uneventfully. It went fast, too; we didn't have to stop for nursing a baby or anything, so we actually made it in twelve hours. (Twelve hours is still an insanely long drive.) But it was worth it, because being at the beach house is wonderful (although we missed Andy's family). The kids had a blast playing with their cousins all day every day. Alison stayed up late talking to her mom and sisters; Mike stayed up pl...