Today, after waiting almost a week to find out where this hurricane is going, we finally realized we’re out of time.  Gustav suddenly sped up and is going to hit us almost a day or even two sooner than we thought.  This means a few things – 1. our reservations are for the wrong days and we don’t have reservations for tomorrow night but now REALLY need them, and 2. we need to finish prepping NOW and get out. 

So we sped up our preparations from earlier.  I finished the pool today and it is put up til next year.  We took down the trampoline as well as the basketball goal and picked up all outdoor toys that fit in the shed today.  We boarded up the windows and packed our pictures as well as food that we could eat.  I now need to finish cleaning and throwing out all of the food in the fridge (have you ever smelled food after it’s been rotten for 2 weeks? yeah not fun so we throw it ahead of time) as well as packing all of our clothes and framed pictures from the walls.  I also need to load up our computers, laptops and dvd players. 

After finding out that we needed a room at a hotel for tomorrow I almost panicked.  I mean where in the world would I have to travel to have a place to stay???  And no shelters are not really my favorite option.  However, after looking for about 30 minutes I found a place near Shreveport!!  I was SOOOOO excited!!  So now we leave tomorrow morning instead of Monday morning.  Unfortunately this also means we will spend more money and that continues to worry me.  O.k. I have to get back to packing!!  Talk to you before bed.