Tax Day

Today is Tax Day--and Cate's fifth birthday. She and Ed called last night and left me a voicemail, but our cell service was weak, so I couldn't listen to it until today. Cate announced that she was four years old, but tomorrow "I will be five!" I talked to her today on the road north. She was excited about the birthday sticker she had gotten at school and about her birthday party to be held Saturday. It's a "princess party"--all the little girls dress up as princesses, and Cinderella will come to visit. Wow--how exciting is that?

We left the lovely Park of the Sierras today, but plan to return. In fact, we have put down a deposit and applied for membership in the park. We're around 100th on the list, so it's likely to be a few years before we have an opportunity to actually join. We headed north to a park near Sacramento, continuing on toward Portland.

We contributed towards a new bike for Cate, and Julie said that it was still in the back of the van, waiting for Ed to come home and assemble it (one of the joys of fatherhood).