Tomorrow we leave!

First of all thank you to the people who are continuing to show a their wonderful support of Alena in all ways (be it monetary or just happy wishes): to the B family, to the O and J family (heh... you know who you are!!), the K family, the H family and the J family (for your troubles;) ). Also thank you to Hissyfits consignment shop for just being plain awesome and getting so much money for our stuff! Altogether now including consignment shops, Craigslist sales, eBay sales, and straight up donations we have raised $2917.00 and wow... I'm really impressed. We also raised enough points through Marriott for us to be able to stay for 5 nights for free!!

Our only kink now is that apparently Stanford University has their graduation the day before Alena's scheduled surgery and hotel rates are skyrocketing because of this. Luckily we got the Marriott points to stay for five nights BUT we will still be spending the same amount of money on a hotel even though its for a shorter period of time. I also heard from the Ronald McDonald House associated with Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and they are running at full capacity and do not see availability for us since they have so many long term patients. This is something we can overcome especially with the outstanding amount of money/points we have accumulated! Like I have said before feel free to continue to donate if you want to, any moneys we receive above the amount we need for our stay will be going towards a local charity for children with Congenital Heart Defects. Oh and hey, here's a little fact for you too: 1 in 150 children is born with some variation of a congenital heart defect.

So our flight leaves for Palo Alto tomorrow at 7.25 pm, we need to get to the airport at 5.30 and we need to leave the house by 4 to make that happen. We wont arrive in Oakland until 9.30 and then it will be another hour after we pick up the rental car and get situated. I think we should arrive at the hotel about 11:30 to midnight. That's a really long evening! We are really close to being fully packed and are going to finish up in the morning. Wish us luck in our travel day and I will keep everyone updated, I'm also going to try to take some pictures to share with you guys of the things we are doing with Alena and her hospital stay journey as well. Remember to join our Facebook group for more up to date information regarding Alena and her hospital stay.