Travel Day! (& It's the Broken End of the Year)

We were up at 6am to make sure we had plenty of time to be ready & settled before we headed to the airport for our yearly trip to San Martin & Berkeley. But, not a lot to do this morning other than get our final stuff together and tell the cats, who were unnerved about us being up so early, that all was OK. (All was not OK.) -- I had thought we were going to have to go in early because I couldn't…