…was the first time in nine months Ben and I were able to enjoy a [appropriately socially distanced from the rest of humanity] afternoon at Starbucks. It was wonderful.
We have to be out of the hotel room every Saturday for housekeeping to perform what they cal a "deep clean." This requires finding someplace to sequester the dogs while we're out of the room. Thankfully Ben's grandfather is more than willing to watch the little pee buckets at his place while we run errands, do laundry, and yesterday—grab a little respite from all the insanity of the last month.
After grabbing coffee and breakfast, we did our week's laundry and then we hit Best Buy to look at televisions. We didn't buy anything, because we have nowhere to store it, but we have a much better idea of what we want when we settled into our new place in a week's time.
Finished there, we hit Starbucks, grabbed some lunch, and enjoyed the balmy December weather sitting outside for a few hours before picking up the dogs an heading back to the room.
Today we left the dogs in the room (they were amazingly well-behaved) and hit IKEA, where we picked up a few necessities that were going to be needed at our new home before we get the remainder of our belongings returned.
All in all, it was a good weekend.
Next weekend, however, is going to be crazy.