We've had a hectic week since the last post. We had a couple of retirement parties, one at Tim's house and one at work. Here's a photo of the Bergman's at the City event. The outfit that Ron is wearing came from Raju Gupta who is the City Engineer in Navsari India. He was staying with Ron & Tricia last week, while doing the first half of a professional exchange. He visited the infrastructure bureaus of the City of Portland and learned how we handle Transportation, water, sewer, stormdrainage, and d-Government, and sustainability issues. Over the week-end we made a quick trip to Los Angeles to say good bye to Ron's mom. It was a fast but enjoyable trip to see her and Bob. Came home Sunday night to face a very heavily scheduled week. We met with moving companies supplied by ICMA to airfreight items (up to 450 pounds). We'll be under that, but we were concerned about finding the time to pack these things up. Lo and behold we found out that we not allowed to do the packing because every customs agent between here and Sri Lanka would want to look inside. So, the movers will pack it up for us... including the computer and monitor, which Ron was dreading packing since we have thrown away the boxes and protective foam that came with the system. We found out that our friend Wayne will not rent our house (which we were hoping for) since he would want us to leave most of our things in place. We were dreading packing up the house and moving our "permanent" home to the apartment above the garage. So, we decided to only rent out the apartment and leave the house for us. That also means that we may not be coming back in December, as we had originally planned. That means we'll need to arrange for the car and trailer to get re-licensed while we're away. In order to do that, we had to get the car inspected, which we did today. So now we're ready to re-license these when the tags expire early next year.