Kim is off to Seattle in her car you would have trouble trading for a family meal at nice restaurant.  She should arrive about midnight.  She ‘needs’ to help out her roommate who was visiting her ex-husband when she had a miscarriage of someone else’s baby.  Or some such thing like that. 

I’m off to New Mexico tomorrow morning and can’t hang around to rescue her if she has problems on her way back.

I wish she wouldn’t worry her parents so much.