Go Big or Go Home

True to my nature, my enthousiasm outweighed my experience in Moab. First day, first ride, just after the first hour, bam! my face hits the rocks. And not only that, but my face actually gets sort of sandwiched between the slickrock and my handlebars leaving me with an award winning shinner, a bloddy nose and a mid-range concussion. I think this was my best crash to date, or at least the one with the most injury. Thanks to the experience with my wrist last New Year's down in Kalispell, Jeff and I are pretty smooth with using our out-of-province extended health insurance cards. I got off the trail thanks to some slightly drunk 4x4 drivers and Jeff took me straight to the hospital to get my eye checked out. Retina, iris and cornea, intact and healthy - check! Awsome. My eye was swollen shut for most of the remaining days in Moab, but I still got out and hiked up a few of the trails Jeff was riding. I must have looked pretty funny hiking with no depth perception (I stayed far back from 'viewpoints'!), and I came home with a square outlined by sunburn on my face (from the patch), but all told it was nice to get out of town for a while.

Fortunately or not, on Saturday when we got home I was hit with a bad cold. I think it was maybe tied to having hurt my sinus, but having a runny nose with a still sore face was a challenge! I say 'fortunately' because I stayed home from work yesterday sick and started packing up our stuff. I feel like I worked pretty steady all day but I only got about a 1/4 of our stuff packed up... for a small apartment, we certainly have things stuck in every little spot! Some field work has come up for this week (starting tomorrow) but with my eye, I'm really not comfortable driving long distances yet. So for all my threatening to ditch out of moving, I'm really quite happy to beable to stay and get it done. It's a much bigger job than I remember...

Tomorrow we get the keys and start the van train. The next picture of the house I post will have us inside it! The 4 to 5 months promised has become 9 months, but the house looks good and the weather is much better for moving than it was around Christmas. It's finally Moving Day!