On Wednesday morning, December 6th, we got word from Cate School (where our youngest son is a boarding student) that although the fire was still many miles away from the school they had made the decision to send kids to local family homes and get them off campus. The smoke was getting worse and worse in Ventura, Carpinteria and Santa Barbara. Here's a photo taken from our front yard looking toward the Montecito Valley Ranch Community Green:
We offered to host any Cate students from out of town who needed a place to stay. Bryce arrived on Wednesday afternoon with 5 of his buddies from the Lido dormitory. All the boys were sophomores and it seemed like they were going to eat us out of house and home!
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| Breakfast for a bunch of hungry boys! |
It was fun to have these kids here in the house with us. They all had sleeping bags and spent two nights in our media room where they watched movies and checked the progress of the fire on their phones and laptop computers.
After two nights with the boys here with us, the school coordinated their departures back to their homes. The boys hailed from New Jersey, Texas, Seattle, Los Angels and Beijing. While they were here, the school decided to cancel the rest of the semester and begin Christmas vacation early -- 10 days early. We would later learn how smart that decision was . . . .
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