Up for 0530 and hiking the 3.5 miles into Agua Dulce! Yeah, finally here! Warm morning and I actually hiked in my t-shirt for once (sun wasn't up yet) Got to town, cafe wasn't open yet, so we just headed up to the Saufley's (super nice family that let's hikers stay with them and 100% helps you out in anyway possible) So, by 7am we were at their place and signed up for a shower and put our laundry in the basket to be cleaned! Yeah, went to the garage and picked up our many packages! Some we expected, others were a great suprise! Our ice axes made it (we'll mail them up ahead to the Sierra's), our new tent fly made it, our 2 boxes of maps, dehydrated food and other stuff made it! A great care package from Gram and Grampa (with REAL homeade cookies in it! Our first homeade cookies, though Priscilla "tried" to pass her cookies off as homeade) Another package from Yappy (AT friend from 2005 who lives in Alaska) with all kinda of fun trail food, a letter from my Grammy Peg (who just recently found this website, she's a computer genius now!!) Hi gram! And just in the mail today is a package of trail bars from Linda from work and Peter! Thank you so much......and yes, we are having FUN! :) After all of that, we signed up to take the family surburban into the city to REI and go food shopping at a less expensive store. So, 8 of us piled into this beast of a vehicle and went to Los Angeles! Wow, going fast on the highway was a weird feeling, esp for Neighbor who was driving! Got our errands done without too much hassle and made it back to Agua Dulce! Pulling off the highway, we get pulled over..........guess it's the law to wear a seatbelt in CA (I had mine on!!) Others didn't....the cop looked at us like we were crazy (this surburban was older and the a/c didn't work and it was nearly 100 degrees today, so all the windows were down and we were all windblown.) Then he realized that there were 4 of us in the middle row of seats instead of 3, so I crawled in the back row, after all that we only left with a verbal warning! We filled up the beast for 3.99 per gallon and brought it back to the Saufley's! Then we realized that our friend Stinky and Chris were here to visit us! They drove an hour to hang out with us!!! We chatted for a bit, then went out for Mexican food! What a great end to a fun day! It's almost 11pm here now, so I'm going to sign off for a bit, tomorrow involves putting all the food we bought into boxes and mailing ahead for the Sierra's!
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