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First time linking that to a NYT account. 

Starting to write Friday morning's entry on Thursday morning as part of getting ready for travel.

Went jogging in the morning. After that, bacon, eggs, and muffins for breakfast, both to use up perishable stuff and because we were low on or out of some more normal stuff. After that, roughly half a day of working from home, while packing and getting ready to go. Reorganizing as we take care of all the things we can only do at the last minute. Repacking because we got new suitcases for this and aren't used to them. Washing dirty clothes we want to bring with us and some we don't want to as well while we're at it, and of course it all has to be folded. Lunch was a weird mix of whatever in the fridge would spoil while we were away.

The Lyft to the airport is scheduled for 2 PM.

The flight was about an hour late but otherwise uneventful. 

Firsts

This is lots of firsts, or firsts-in-a-long-time. This is our first real vacation not merely to stay at my parent's house or T.'s parent's house since covid and the first trip overseas the kid is likely to remember. Beyond that? In 2019 we went on a trip mostly in my parent's RV through Quebec and some of the maritime provinces of Canada. In 2018 we went to Seattle to see a friend of T.'s and my aunt, uncle, and cousins. In 2017 we went to France, and in addition to independent tourism stayed in my aunt's house for a few days. In 2016 and 2015 we only traveled to see family, due to the baby. 

So this will be our first trip in eight years when we don't have access to a home's washing machine. We tried to pack clothes for every single day of our stay, at least underwear and shirts, because if we didn't, we'd have to figure out a laundromat in a foreign country.