forgot to tell you!

I bought some serious gear! I got a ski mask for kids at REI so it only cost about 10 dollars on sale==also bought some hiking socks...well, sock liners. To keep feet from getting blisters. I've come home and taken a bath in my fab tub and it makes my feet so soft that I go back and get rubbed raw each time---but I don't care! I can take it! I'm learning to put up with them. --and finding ways to make it not so bad.
So the socks will help. Double layers. and when I go home this time, the whole first four days will be the SAME pair of shoes (black ecco's that are great and comfy).

Seems like there was something else, but I've forgotten already!