Packing a Prius

We recently moved to the San Jose area. On the final push up here, we ended up packing myself, my husband, my teenage neice, a cat and my infant daughter into our Pruis, along with everything we would need for the 28 days we would be without our belongings.

Can you imagine 28 days worth of stuff, including things for the baby, stuffed in our precious Prius? It took us an hour, inventive packing and a lot of cursing to get everything in there and get the trunk closed....and it barely closed! Almost had to put a shoulder into it to get it to latch completely! We couldn't see out the back and and available space in the backseat was taken.

We were packed FULL! We were all surprised that the car wasn't scraping bottom and my hubby predicted that our mileage was going to suck. But surprisingly, it didn't! Averaged 38 MPG the whole way!

And being the only one that knows how to drive by mirrors, I was elected to drive the whole 360 miles. Nice...

Annie