Off We Go [Sir Jury!]

[phesina]

Gina, we're so glad to know you made it to California and friends and a safe place to rest!

I'm so sorry for your friend. That's great that you can bring some joy and fun to the little girls.

The kitties (especially Elmer!) and I all send our love..

Pat and the gang

[chocolatepuppy]

Happy to hear you are in CA. Gina!!! Have fun with your family.

[sandragonfly]

yikes, I'll have to take them to their doctor appointment tomorrow. what am I suppose to do? lol.. it should be fun! they are already pooping me out. I guess they could enjoy crayola (crushed in between babyseats) in the back seat too. they love them, especially crayola's jiggling tags!

anyway, here's one of picture of us each from the road ..

arf-hello!

and thank you for thoughts! next week the little girls will be picked up by their grandmother (eight hours away) until we know when the brothers will be out - probably not in next few months.

[Catty1]

Lovely pics! How old are the little girls?

I am sure they will love squeezing in with Crayola - not sure who will have the best time. Do you think they will want their doctor to check Crayola?

I bet it's nice to have a break from driving. Have fun!

[sandragonfly]

please see a prayer request I made in sticky prayer thread - #841. and I also made a thread in pet general, find it.

I got a few PMs for keeping this thread down - sorry if my last post made you thought I was discouraged to post more in this thread - I just didn't want to type another lengthy post about what happened the other day.

hope you liked pictures. oh, catty, I took a picture of a daisy recently and thought of you - sunny california! I will post it when I have my 10 hands back to two!

edit ~ the girls are 2 and 3.

[sandragonfly]

I just have PMed you all back for arrangements and are on our way to camping near lake tahoe for the weekend!

so, we'll be out of coverage anytime now, for three & half days and will be back on evening of 25th! so don't panick if I haven't post a single.

oh, also, please welcome my new addition here in cat general!

see you all soon.

[Catty1]

Gina, you are out of range now, I think. But have fun! I forget if your Ark is going with you - I think a friend is looking after them?

Have fun and come back and tell us all about it!

[Cinder & Smoke]

I just have PMed you all back for arrangements and are on our way to camping
near Lake Tahoe for the weekend!

Will be back on evening of 25th!

Has anybody HEARD from her; or know exactly where she went??

There's a BAD Forest Fire burning south of Lake Tahoe >>>

www.MSNBC.com web story - "Lake Tahoe Fire" >>>

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19406288/

[Catty1]

I would think park staff would be getting everyone out, or posting warnings and closing roads.

Today is the 25th....on the 22nd she said 3 1/2 days...

I'll drop her a PM and check!

[Taz_Zoee]

She had PM'd me before they left and said she'd be back in range Monday morning. Because we were going to possibly get together tonight. But I haven't heard from her. I know the road to get up there was closed, so maybe they are stuck for a while longer. Hopefully we will hear from her later today.

[Karen]

I just got a message from Gina, via relay operator. She is okay, they are just tired, and exhausted and bothered by the smoke. The ranger came by, and the road they need to take is currently closed, but they will repoen it tomorrow, and so they will be able to leave then.

She wanted to let everyone know, and to not worry. Sorry I missed her actual call, but I am posting this for her.

[Taz_Zoee]

Thank you Karen. I'm so glad she contacted you. I was getting very worried, even though there have been no injuries reported because of the fire.
I had her cell phone number, but accidentally deleted it.
Good to hear they are all okay.

[Catty1]

Good news! Thanks, Karen!

[phesina]

So glad to know she's all right! Thank you.

[sandragonfly]

whew, thanks karen! I was afraid I didn't remember your number by heart correctly. without signal, was unable to retrieve my address book.

hey folks, I'm alive!! we're alive! back home. SO glad to be back. good lord, camping was wholely surreal .. first, animal control crisis, five kids, then the news we heard about missing pregnant woman then the all of sudden smoke came, darkened the days, the blue lake and us.. lake tahoe was black. blackened. we didn't camp very far from where 3,000 arces were burnt, about 25 miles away. you wouldn't believe how giant the smoke was - my.. the smok was coming north, directly at us, we didn't see any fire - only orange glows in grey smoke.

we were supposed to be home yesterday early afternoon but the main roads were closed and we were very tired from crazy rangers, crowds, alerts and tons of cars and felt it was a hassle going up, around the lake so we stayed there another night. for free. and took us all day to get back home today! goodness. but we DID had fun. white sand shorelines, french toasts, campfires, and smores.. they don't taste the same at home.

candace - I didn't bring my ark with us, only my golden fluffy. at the next camping we will; crayola and two or three felinekids. cindy, so sorry we didn't came back in time! we could try again next monday?

please keep lake tahoe victims in your prayers - I've seen enough. nearly all of my tahoe pictures are murky and in them, there's a fire truck at every block. it was odd seeing that lake again very differently after I passed it almost two weeks ago.