Day 23 - September 12

 Today was a day 'at home' here at Peter and Megin's.  Since the van is out of commission, Megin got a ride to work with her roommate/co-worker and that left the car here for Peter to take Pete to Courtney to pick up a new belt and a soldering gun to fix the wiring.  Peter also had a few errands as he is leaving for 2 weeks on Thursday to go to North Carolina for a spiritual retreat.  (I think he has to refresh after hosting his parents for 2 weeks!)

I stayed home to do laundry and clean the van to get ready for the next stage of our journey.  We are going to host Willem, Drew and Woody, Roots and Raven, and Peter and Megin for home made pizza supper with apple crisp and ice cream for dessert tonight.  I got the apple crisp ready late this afternoon and also biked to town to pick up a few ingredients to make a parmesan sauce.  Peter picked up more groceries when he picked up Megin from work at 3.  It will to tough to leave this place as all the kids in all 3 houses have been amazing.  So kind and so welcoming.  We have had a great time.

Pete got the van all fixed up like the pro that he is and we took a test drive doing ever-increasing circles around our home base until we were certain all was well.  

Our meal was really fun.  Meg did an impression of a real Italian pizzeria owner by throwing the dough into the air and catching it.  Pete videoed the amazing feat!  The meal was really tasty.  Roots and Raven contributed some bull kelp pickles that they harvested and made and one of the pizzas included kelp that they had dried.  So neat trying these different things.  We said goodnight and goodbye to everyone, except Peter who we will see again in the morning.









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