The trip home

Getting Thomas packed and on the road took some doing.  First I insisted on breakfast:

Then we had to park in an alleyway next to his dorm and put on our hazards (like ten other sets of parents) to make it look like we were going to be there barely a second (more like 2 hours):

Then Thomas would bring me successive loads and I would cram them in:

I saw some kid throw away useful stuff into a dumpster, so now we are a small saucepan the richer:

Finally everything was in, and even more miraculously, I was able both to re-attach the bike rack to the car and attach the bike to the rack, and we were off!