Stop, who knows - 50 car pile up? So the kids and I decide to make the best of the situation and kick rocks around the parking lot in a game of "Who can kick the farthest?" until Jason yells across the highway at us to sit down. Fun over, oh and I feel 8 again ha! We sit there until two police officers and a tow truck drive into the parking lot and retrieve us. Their son is thrilled he gets to sit in a police car - he even got front seat!! Jason, their daughter, and I pile into the back of the other car while Sandy piles into the back of the one their son is in. Once we're at a car repair shop we learn that their backed up for a week and the nearest Jaguar place is an hour away. Time for a rental. Call Enterprise, they'll pick you up ;) We got into a mini van which all of us but Jason felt much more comfortable in! We each had our own seats and little air vents [no more kids leaning on me!!] The ride was great! So, by noon we are back on the road and on our way home!! Around 5:30 Sandy begins feeling a lot of pain, excruciating pain in fact, in her right side and head. Jason insists we go to the hospital. So - 2 hours from home we stop at the closest hospital and wait. and wait. and wait. and wait. 4 hours later at 10pm Sandy is given medicine for a migraine and we are sent on our merry [exhausted, crabby, hungry] way. 2 hours later we are home. 17 hours. That is how long it took us to travel a 6-8 hour trip. And poor Sandy and Jason, their Jag won't be ready to be fixed for another two weeks and even if it can be fixed, the insurance company may just total it. All I know is that I thank God nobody was hurt and throughout the whole ordeal we found ways to laugh and have fun :) Somebody was lookin out!
Saturday, June 16, 2012
The LONGEST Way Home!!
Heading back to Tennessee = dreadful. We got on the road late, a little past 7:30am. We were supposed to leave at 5:30. Oops! Around 9:30 . . . trouble in paradise. As I told the kids once again they could not lean on me I look up and notice a man jumping up and down flailing his arms and pointing at the road. Naturally I think this man is drunk and just as I start to voice my opinion the car hits something and jumps in the air - landing with a thud. As we pull over to the side of the road the car begins to smoke profusely and by the looks of it we're about to get a view of smoke pouring out of Jason's ears as well. While pacing back and forth Jason ushers us out of the car and instructs the kids and I to run across the street and wait at the deserted restaurant for a tow truck to come. Our transmission is shot. Standing across the road the kids and I piece together what has happened. Some truck, who knows how far ahead of us, had dropped something in the middle of the road. The man on the other side of the road noticed this and jumped out to get it - upon realizing that there is no way to grab the object before cars traveling 60mph pummel him he decides to jump up and down like a mad man. Once Jason realizes there is something in the road he realizes something else - there is nowhere to go but over it. Swerve to the left, kill crazy man. Swerve to the right, kill us upon running into semi.
Stop, who knows - 50 car pile up? So the kids and I decide to make the best of the situation and kick rocks around the parking lot in a game of "Who can kick the farthest?" until Jason yells across the highway at us to sit down. Fun over, oh and I feel 8 again ha! We sit there until two police officers and a tow truck drive into the parking lot and retrieve us. Their son is thrilled he gets to sit in a police car - he even got front seat!! Jason, their daughter, and I pile into the back of the other car while Sandy piles into the back of the one their son is in. Once we're at a car repair shop we learn that their backed up for a week and the nearest Jaguar place is an hour away. Time for a rental. Call Enterprise, they'll pick you up ;) We got into a mini van which all of us but Jason felt much more comfortable in! We each had our own seats and little air vents [no more kids leaning on me!!] The ride was great! So, by noon we are back on the road and on our way home!! Around 5:30 Sandy begins feeling a lot of pain, excruciating pain in fact, in her right side and head. Jason insists we go to the hospital. So - 2 hours from home we stop at the closest hospital and wait. and wait. and wait. and wait. 4 hours later at 10pm Sandy is given medicine for a migraine and we are sent on our merry [exhausted, crabby, hungry] way. 2 hours later we are home. 17 hours. That is how long it took us to travel a 6-8 hour trip. And poor Sandy and Jason, their Jag won't be ready to be fixed for another two weeks and even if it can be fixed, the insurance company may just total it. All I know is that I thank God nobody was hurt and throughout the whole ordeal we found ways to laugh and have fun :) Somebody was lookin out!
Stop, who knows - 50 car pile up? So the kids and I decide to make the best of the situation and kick rocks around the parking lot in a game of "Who can kick the farthest?" until Jason yells across the highway at us to sit down. Fun over, oh and I feel 8 again ha! We sit there until two police officers and a tow truck drive into the parking lot and retrieve us. Their son is thrilled he gets to sit in a police car - he even got front seat!! Jason, their daughter, and I pile into the back of the other car while Sandy piles into the back of the one their son is in. Once we're at a car repair shop we learn that their backed up for a week and the nearest Jaguar place is an hour away. Time for a rental. Call Enterprise, they'll pick you up ;) We got into a mini van which all of us but Jason felt much more comfortable in! We each had our own seats and little air vents [no more kids leaning on me!!] The ride was great! So, by noon we are back on the road and on our way home!! Around 5:30 Sandy begins feeling a lot of pain, excruciating pain in fact, in her right side and head. Jason insists we go to the hospital. So - 2 hours from home we stop at the closest hospital and wait. and wait. and wait. and wait. 4 hours later at 10pm Sandy is given medicine for a migraine and we are sent on our merry [exhausted, crabby, hungry] way. 2 hours later we are home. 17 hours. That is how long it took us to travel a 6-8 hour trip. And poor Sandy and Jason, their Jag won't be ready to be fixed for another two weeks and even if it can be fixed, the insurance company may just total it. All I know is that I thank God nobody was hurt and throughout the whole ordeal we found ways to laugh and have fun :) Somebody was lookin out!
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