She Made It.

So there are a lot of changes in my world once again. Not that it ever really stands still for very long. So more to the point RG has made it to Moscow and is very tired. She had 20 or so hours of travel to get there and moved 150lbs ~ 68kg (I need to start learning metric measures, as that is what they use in Russia) worth of personal materials. So much in fact that the funny looking man at the airport had to hang a tag on her bag that said “HEAVY”. LOL. Luckily, though, we did have a lazy weekend to usher in the new period of our lives. Even though there were a lot of different people coming and going in the house. As I now have a new roommate and parents wanted to see RG off, along with help my sister settle into her new place in the dorm.

The weekend started off a little busy. I came home early on Wednesday to spend more time with RG before she left. The next day MQ started to move his belongings into the middle bedroom (he is moving in as changes in his life left him a bit homeless for the time). Also I should mention that the siders have been hard at work for around a week now and continued through Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday causing some extra commotion. By that night MQ had most of his belongings in, the house is mostly sided, and the weekend was already in full swing. My parents were supposed to come in but couldn’t make it because their flight was over sold in Denver.

The next day was RG’s last at work. And a long day it must have been too. She didn’t go in until 9am, had a long lunch from 11 – 1:30 and left for happy hour at 2p. But then again what do expect on someone’s last day. My parents did show up mid morning after had run to buy supplies for the siders (seems when you are getting a deal from contractors they expect you to do some running around – weird). I left my parents and joined RG for her work happy hour. We went to Gabby’s on Marshal St. It’s kind of a dive, but only 2 blocks from her work so that was that. After a few beers with her coworkers we headed home.

The main event was really that night. My dad was nice enough to take the whole family to Benihanna’s in Maple Grove. It just recently opened and is much nicer that the old location in St. Louis Park. And more importantly had RG’s favorite sauce. The place is so new that the address doesn’t show up on either Google maps or Mapquest. The new location wasn’t nearly as busy and the clientele seemed more cleaned up. The food was great, even my brother liked it (he normally doesn’t like it unless the food is a cheeseburger). The chef was pretty good, the drinks were good, the food was good, and the company was good; though my little sister had to take off early to continue to pack for her move to the dorm the next day. After dinner we all went home and kind of vegged out while we tried to let our full bellies settle down.

Saturday was pretty relaxed. We went and saw the new dorm room, my dad flew out after visiting friends, and RG and I spent most of the day just relaxing and hanging out together. Sunday and Monday were very similar to Saturday except that RG finished packing and it felt like time was slipping away. Monday night I took RG out to Taste of India in St. Louis Park. I had to turn around one time because I passed the correct exit but that wasn’t too bad. The food was excellent. RG was very happy because she got to go to both of her favorite restaurants before leaving. I was happy because we split a dinner so I wasn’t as over stuffed as I was on Friday. All in all it was probably our slowest weekend all summer and a nice way to spend RGs remaining time before she headed to Moscow.

Tuesday was pretty rough. We got up around 4am. I don’t care about anything, when you get up at 4am you are in for a day that is not going to be fun. MQ was nice enough to give us a ride to the airport. However he took the most complicated way possible. Back roads to 35w north of 36, 280 to 94, down Snelling, a hundred turns through St. Paul (past the old Ford Plant) to get to hwy 5. He got us there on time, but used the entire 30 min to get there. I think we could have cut at least 40% of the time out, but it worked out so no worries I guess; though I was a bit worried when after 20 minutes we were only ½ way there LOL. Get through the airport wasn’t bad. RG’s enormous bag was too heavy so we had to pay an additional fee, they marked as being extra heavy, and we went on to security. There were no lines, I mean no lines at security so it really isn’t worth mentioning. Once we reached the gate they were already boarding 1st class, so with in 10 minutes it was time for her to board. That was probably the saddest moment for me so far, but I’m sure there will be more. As I will be joining her in a couple days. We shall see how I do once I get home and she isn’t there.

Chatting with RG online this morning I do know that she made it to Moscow. I know that she had a long wait in NY and fun with security there. I also know that she had a very tiring flight with a small child crying and kicking her seat. But I do not know the details to these things. Hopefully she will write in more detail about her trip in her blog. Until then we can all just be happy that she arrived safe and sound…. We will have to wait and see if she is still sane!