Friday morning our family and our house guests were all in a flurry to get ready, pack, and travel up to Idaho. I thought I'd run a few loads of laundry in addition to all of the showers going on, which proved to be a bad idea. Our old pipes had had enough and backed up all over the basement and flooded the laundry and spare room floors. Awesome. We stayed home an additional few hours while Seth snaked the drains. Then we locked the doors and left.