Happy late mother's day!! love you!
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sorry, it's been awhile :) We've been in paradise!
My sweet friends! So sorry I've not been very consistent at keeping you up to date with all the crazy happenings! And trust me there have been some.
We actually are in Paradise! Ok it's not Kauai as I had planned, but it is Paradise.... Nevada :)
We made it here on Mother's day hence I didn't get to share my fun video that I made for you, but know I was thinking of you and wanted you to know that i was. I may still post it here...better late than never !
So we came to Nevada on our way to take care of some things in Utah! However, after we had been here a day my awesome brother and dad taught Robert to change the brakes! Woo hoo!
We had intended to leave the next day because we were going to go to Utah and then off to Kauai. And yes, I really intend for us to go THIS summer! However, when we tested the brakes we discovered a problem we hadn't intended. Our brake lights were no longer working...electrical! ugh! We are still attempting to diagnose the problem but we really aren't in a hurry. Just enjoying being with my folks, brother,
and his beauty -full children. Not to mention my awesome nephew Brick... when he's around! haha
When thing i have learned though is that kids are far more adaptable then adults BUT they are great at mimicing us..I'll be more aware of maintaining a positive outlook, even more than usual!
Love, light, n' aloha!!!!
We actually are in Paradise! Ok it's not Kauai as I had planned, but it is Paradise.... Nevada :)
We made it here on Mother's day hence I didn't get to share my fun video that I made for you, but know I was thinking of you and wanted you to know that i was. I may still post it here...better late than never !
So we came to Nevada on our way to take care of some things in Utah! However, after we had been here a day my awesome brother and dad taught Robert to change the brakes! Woo hoo!
We had intended to leave the next day because we were going to go to Utah and then off to Kauai. And yes, I really intend for us to go THIS summer! However, when we tested the brakes we discovered a problem we hadn't intended. Our brake lights were no longer working...electrical! ugh! We are still attempting to diagnose the problem but we really aren't in a hurry. Just enjoying being with my folks, brother,
and his beauty -full children. Not to mention my awesome nephew Brick... when he's around! haha
When thing i have learned though is that kids are far more adaptable then adults BUT they are great at mimicing us..I'll be more aware of maintaining a positive outlook, even more than usual!
Love, light, n' aloha!!!!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
We need to put on the brakes!
On the van not our life! Last week we took the kids to the Grand Canyon. I have always wanted to go and when we first decided we were going to attempt this that was a destination that came up first. So, we drove into Williams AZ. Tuesday night. We spent the night at Motel 6. And I cried! It was icky! I tried to not let it bug me we've stayed all sorts of places while on this adventure. Including a motel 6 in Wyoming. It was really update and nice. Our hotel stays are always contingent on their animal policy being we have the 2 dogs. Citrine, the cat, found a new home while we were in Oceanside CA. And no we did not "dump" her. There was a very sweet lady who actually was very drawn to her and Citrine had just proven that she was done with our journey by peeing on "my" sleeping bag and being i was the last one holding on to her. That act of miterating made the release to a new home easy. Now she lays around all day, plays with her cat toys and has no dogs to be annoyed by. Much less the crazy family that journeyed out with her 2 months ago and crammed 10 people, 2 dogs, and 1 cat into a 12 passenger. At that point we were already exceeding capacity. haha
Anyway, so we are in Williams and we head out in the morning to the Grand Canyon. It is remarkable! Nothing could have prepared me for how surreal I felt. it was so massively huge that my mind couldn't conceive it all at one. At first it almost rejected the idea and seemed just like a painting it was so majestic and incomprehensible. Although looking at my feet following the rocks down and getting a sense of where I was standing and the reality of the massiveness of it in little bites that were more directly related helped to take in the awe- some-ness of the experience, the reality!
Rob, who has a bit of an issue with heights was ok NOT looking at it too much. He even tried to stay up on the "solid" ground by pretending to keep the dog in check. And with my lovingly gentle ways (insert a hearty laugh), called him on the fact that he was letting it get to him and the only way he was gonna really appreciate the experience would be to get outside of his comfort zone, get close and let himself experience it. There was a little hesitation so i prodded him by asking " what would you hope your kids would do? Would you really wants them to miss out on the wonderful experiences life has to offer because something makes them nervous " "After all kids' do as we do NOT as we say" He looked at me with that look that says I concede! just stop talking. Smiles and heads to the edge (where there is a safety fence) and looks over.
When he returns there is a renewed bounce in his step. Is that confidence? Did you just conquer a childhood fear? HOORAY!!!!!!
He said he enjoyed it and it was in fact cooler up close. Letting himself become vulnerable made such a difference. Not only did he enjoy the experience, feel better about moving through the fear and embracing the dream. He also spoke volumes to our children about stepping out, stepping up , and being okay!
Now comes the really exciting part, as we leave the Grand Canyon. Which feels totally awesome. There are elk everywhere and they just walk around and lie beside the roads. Being they are federally protected in the Park. they have absolutely no fear of humans. You can't feed them either so they don't approach you for hand outs either. They exist in this regal space of oneness with their environment. No fear, no begging, just calm, regal, poised confidence. It's amazing to witness!
We head to the Valle Stop to get gas it's on the corner of jct 64 and hwy 180. As we attempt to leave our car wont start. We knew we were having some battery issues but this issue was like D-E-A-D!!
We begin asking people for a jump and no one has cables. the shop doesn't even offer jumper cables. Which SUCKS! Anyway we meet this guy and he's got one of those battery charger things. He hooks it up to our battery but its too dead. He makes a few more attempts, at this point his battery charger is drained of power. Then finally relents and apologizes that he couldn't have helped. Funny thing is, his gesture of kindness alone made a difference. The fact that he was sincerely concerned about our needs was enough to jump start our hope that we'll be okay!
I guess you really never do know how your kindness will affect another. He for us was a God send that day. It gave me the courage to ask the next fellas if they had jumper cables and although they didn't it didn't stop them from driving around the corner to the restaurant and asking around if someone could help us out. This cute couple returned named Jim and Win. They had cables! We had to charge our battery for about 20 min. before it would even turn over. it was that dead. While we were waiting we are chatting and having a great time meeting these generous people who just wanted to help :)
We get underway and as we are heading down hwy 180 there is a woman standing beside the road with her thumb out. I coax Rob into picking her up. I know you shouldn't pick up hitchhikers but we had just had so much kindness shown upon us,. Returning the favor just made sense. Her name was Kerry. She was head into flagstaff to meet up with friends for the evening. She was just this tiny little thing maybe 5'2" and 110 lbs soaking wet. So, we gave her the front seat. and i sat with the kids in the back. We had gone about 30 miles when the van began to lose power. at this point our little maltese Daisy, had made her way to the front on was perched on Kerry's lap. Kerry was so excited to be interacting with Daisy and daisy completely made herself at home on.
So the van begins to lurch. it's losing power. Rob has the gas pedal on the floor and is just trying to go as far as he can. even if we crawl into Flagstaff. To set the scene a little bit for you . we are in the middle of NO-WHERE! We are at 8000 ft altitude, so its beginning to get cold. There is a no light pollution ordinance in the National Forestry so it's also gonna get VERY dark! We are losing power and have no cell service because we are so high and out of range. The van lurches again, then it begins to make this grindy sound, which is NEVER good! I'm asking what's going on, like Rob isn't going through the experience with me for the first time. He said I don't know the brake lights just went on I was like what? Then Elijah shouts FIRE!
What? he continues to ramble there's a fire and we are shooting sparks. i flip around just in time to see these red hot sparks at least an inch in diameter shooting from the back of the van. Then i hear his words we started a fire!
Rob pulls off the he and the boys jump out of the car and begin running to where we came from. I hadn't seen the fire yet, but I open the passenger door and push Kerry's legs out of the way. pull the fire extinguisher from the compartment under her seat and begin to run to follow the guys. Funny thing is while I'm running I realize that Kerry was in the car with us and this is probably the most interesting car ride she's had. I begin to laugh ass i'm attempting to run. thinking she probably wishes we'd kept going!
I get to the fire and Rob, Robert, Elijah, Ke'A, and Hank are literally stomping on the edges. Somehow Rob has a baby blanket and is swatting out and smothering the flames. Elijah and Robert are stepping on the edges to contain it. While Ke'A and hank are digging and throwing handfuls of dirt onto the fires. I show up with the extinguisher Robert runs over grabs it for me and says, " Are you kidding me?" Apparently my efforts were the least effective. the extinguisher was empty. hahaha
Lucky Eleora comes up with a jug of water and between the water, and the dirt and the baby blanket, and I wouldn't want to forget Elijah melted shoes. (Robert's harness boots held up) We put the 2 fires out completely!
Looking back I'm impressed at just how well they were able to co ordinate there efforts and get it taken care of without any delegating!
Although the fun doesn't stop there. Remember we still have a broken down van, it's getting dark, it's getting cold, and a random traveler with us named Kerry.
We return to the van and literally watch as cars fly past us. At first I tried to flag a few of them down only to have them wave back at me! Even now I chuckle wondering if they feel their wave was helpful. basically what I am hearing is, " I see you but I'm not gonna help you, and I will ignore the fact that I see a million children standing around you needing help as well, I'm gonna keep driving. Good luck and have a nice day"
i know there are times when you must be careful and it's not a good idea...but if that's the attitude we all have I do believe we'd still be sitting there now!
Rob says to me as he notices I'm going to attempt someone to help us again, " Babe, the right people will stop." I relent and put my hand down and let it be. Just a few moments later a mustang pulls up and asks if they can help. She's so sweet but its a rental and they have no cables, not to mention we are a little nervous about driving being we just put out 2 fires the size of a kitchen table top moments earlier.
However, they DO have service! I call our insurance company and am resisting the urge to scream at the representative as she continually tells me they are trying to get a good location on us could I please tell her again whats the very closest intersection to us. I'm thinking," what part of I'm not from here, do you NOT understand?" not to mention in the middle of Hwy 180 just came from jct 64 and hwy 180 and have no FREAKING idea what intersection is ahead of me being I'm NOT FROM HERE!!!!!!!! (exhale)
okay I'm smiling again because it's actually quite humorous and the memories? Awesome!
So these 2 guys pull up while i'm on the phone with the insurance. They attempt to jump our van, it wont jump. They determine that our battery terminal post for the positive, has broken off inside the battery so it's not able to properly charge. They stick a 3/8 inch bolt into the terminal space and get us going to some degree. We figure it's the best chance we got. We start loading into our van and watch the 2 guys that helped us drive off in their truck. We are feeling good. Before we are loaded n it begins to make a sound like its losing power. We begin to get in a frenzy and are like push on the gas. Hoping this will encourage the van to keep going. Amazingly all these kid's who pretend to drive start to scream and panic that they don't know how. I believe I'm more in shock that they've lost their brains in this moment and can't remember which pedal is the gas than the fact that we are just about to be in the exact same position we were in before this began. These same kids that organized themselves in putting out 2 wildfires cant find the gas pedal! hoi!
The van dies and we are back to square one. Oh yeah, Kerry caught a ride into town with the Mustang folks. Funny thing when she got into their car Jill, the woman in the mustang, says to her, "You don't have a gun do you?" and then chuckles like she's just kidding. We all know she's not and Kerry answers quietly but matter of factley while shaking her head, "no". Although I'm thinking she should if she's gonna hitchhike on these roads alone! Scary! So, maybe not the exact same spot ;)
As we are standing there laughing about it wondering whats gonna happen next a blue minivan approaches. it begins to pull over which I believe prompted the silver sedan following it to pull over as well. Funny how our actions actually give permission to others to act.
The driver of the mini-van gets out and asks how he can help. Which i thought was interesting because I couldn't apply the Bill Engvil joke "Here's your sign" here because he didn't ask the obvious. Rob asks if hes got cables. While he's grabbing his cables the silver sedan pulls his car around and parks nose to nose with us. Clyde, the owner of the van crosses with his cables and we get another jump!
We let it charge a bit more than the last time. Rob shakes hands with the guy in the silver sedan and he drives away. Clyde on the other hand asked if he could follow us in to Flagstaff to make sure we are okay. My response catches in my throat a little because i remember the last guys that left us so quickly. How generous of him to be willing to not only assist a little but to make sure and follow through till the end. I agree and as soon as the doors shut on my van i drop it into drive and hit the gas. We are crawling along. The power in the battery is fading fast. I've got the pedal to the floor and am still watching the speed gauge drop from 50, 30, 20, dead on the side of the road. On a shoulder no less! it is now pitch black outside we have NO power and still no cell service and parked across from mile marker 240. The cute couple helping us Clyde and Tabby, approach the car and offer us their cell phone and to wait until help comes.
We are there for an hour and a half before the representative finally confirms that a tow truck is coming. By this time Highway Trooper John has arrived and begins to mention how bad of a spot this is to be in being its a bit of a blind spot. I can't help it I have to respond, " Yeah I thought it'd be the best place to stop" My comment reeks of sarcasms as i begin to giggle. "We hardly chose to break down here, in fact I'd be just as happy had we limped in to town." He looks at me knowingly but not appreciating my sarcasm. this makes me giggle to myself. So, being that the tow truck is on their way and the kids are freezing. Clyde and Tabby offer to give us a ride into town. Rob, Robert, and Elijah wait with the van for the tow truck. Trooper John, who is a great trooper (pun intended) waited for 2 hours before the tow truck finally showed up!
I went ahead with Ke'A and everyone under Hank we checked out a few places. Not knowing where to go I asked God to lead us and send Angels. We ended up at the Drury Inn. It is a beautiful homey hotel! It was clean, the staff was super friendly, Wes, Krystina, Genevieve, Bryan, and Jeff They took great care of us! The Drury inn also offered a hot breakfast, popcorn and drinks from 3-10 pm, AND dinner! Yes, I said dinner! Well, they call it a "kick-back" and you get a drink card for 3 drinks as well as they put out a spread of kid friendly food, is how I'd describe it. the first night was macaroni, chicken strips, baked potatoes, chili, nachos. The second night was Penne in marinera, meatball, salad, nachos,baked potatoes, and cheese broccoli soup!
So not only were we led to a nice hotel that was reasonably priced it fed us while we were there! Kind of a big deal when you have an unexpected expense like hotel stay and car repair.! So, the Drury Inn, awesome stay!
Our car was towed to KC's auto shop apparently our brake had seized up and that's where the sparks were coming from. They charged the battery rebuilt the drivers rear brake,(it's a drum brake) and Saturday morning we were on our way. The excitement continues but that'll be it's own story!
Be kind, Live happy, and DREAM!
Anyway, so we are in Williams and we head out in the morning to the Grand Canyon. It is remarkable! Nothing could have prepared me for how surreal I felt. it was so massively huge that my mind couldn't conceive it all at one. At first it almost rejected the idea and seemed just like a painting it was so majestic and incomprehensible. Although looking at my feet following the rocks down and getting a sense of where I was standing and the reality of the massiveness of it in little bites that were more directly related helped to take in the awe- some-ness of the experience, the reality!
Rob, who has a bit of an issue with heights was ok NOT looking at it too much. He even tried to stay up on the "solid" ground by pretending to keep the dog in check. And with my lovingly gentle ways (insert a hearty laugh), called him on the fact that he was letting it get to him and the only way he was gonna really appreciate the experience would be to get outside of his comfort zone, get close and let himself experience it. There was a little hesitation so i prodded him by asking " what would you hope your kids would do? Would you really wants them to miss out on the wonderful experiences life has to offer because something makes them nervous " "After all kids' do as we do NOT as we say" He looked at me with that look that says I concede! just stop talking. Smiles and heads to the edge (where there is a safety fence) and looks over.
When he returns there is a renewed bounce in his step. Is that confidence? Did you just conquer a childhood fear? HOORAY!!!!!!
He said he enjoyed it and it was in fact cooler up close. Letting himself become vulnerable made such a difference. Not only did he enjoy the experience, feel better about moving through the fear and embracing the dream. He also spoke volumes to our children about stepping out, stepping up , and being okay!
Now comes the really exciting part, as we leave the Grand Canyon. Which feels totally awesome. There are elk everywhere and they just walk around and lie beside the roads. Being they are federally protected in the Park. they have absolutely no fear of humans. You can't feed them either so they don't approach you for hand outs either. They exist in this regal space of oneness with their environment. No fear, no begging, just calm, regal, poised confidence. It's amazing to witness!
We head to the Valle Stop to get gas it's on the corner of jct 64 and hwy 180. As we attempt to leave our car wont start. We knew we were having some battery issues but this issue was like D-E-A-D!!
We begin asking people for a jump and no one has cables. the shop doesn't even offer jumper cables. Which SUCKS! Anyway we meet this guy and he's got one of those battery charger things. He hooks it up to our battery but its too dead. He makes a few more attempts, at this point his battery charger is drained of power. Then finally relents and apologizes that he couldn't have helped. Funny thing is, his gesture of kindness alone made a difference. The fact that he was sincerely concerned about our needs was enough to jump start our hope that we'll be okay!
I guess you really never do know how your kindness will affect another. He for us was a God send that day. It gave me the courage to ask the next fellas if they had jumper cables and although they didn't it didn't stop them from driving around the corner to the restaurant and asking around if someone could help us out. This cute couple returned named Jim and Win. They had cables! We had to charge our battery for about 20 min. before it would even turn over. it was that dead. While we were waiting we are chatting and having a great time meeting these generous people who just wanted to help :)
We get underway and as we are heading down hwy 180 there is a woman standing beside the road with her thumb out. I coax Rob into picking her up. I know you shouldn't pick up hitchhikers but we had just had so much kindness shown upon us,. Returning the favor just made sense. Her name was Kerry. She was head into flagstaff to meet up with friends for the evening. She was just this tiny little thing maybe 5'2" and 110 lbs soaking wet. So, we gave her the front seat. and i sat with the kids in the back. We had gone about 30 miles when the van began to lose power. at this point our little maltese Daisy, had made her way to the front on was perched on Kerry's lap. Kerry was so excited to be interacting with Daisy and daisy completely made herself at home on.
So the van begins to lurch. it's losing power. Rob has the gas pedal on the floor and is just trying to go as far as he can. even if we crawl into Flagstaff. To set the scene a little bit for you . we are in the middle of NO-WHERE! We are at 8000 ft altitude, so its beginning to get cold. There is a no light pollution ordinance in the National Forestry so it's also gonna get VERY dark! We are losing power and have no cell service because we are so high and out of range. The van lurches again, then it begins to make this grindy sound, which is NEVER good! I'm asking what's going on, like Rob isn't going through the experience with me for the first time. He said I don't know the brake lights just went on I was like what? Then Elijah shouts FIRE!
What? he continues to ramble there's a fire and we are shooting sparks. i flip around just in time to see these red hot sparks at least an inch in diameter shooting from the back of the van. Then i hear his words we started a fire!
Rob pulls off the he and the boys jump out of the car and begin running to where we came from. I hadn't seen the fire yet, but I open the passenger door and push Kerry's legs out of the way. pull the fire extinguisher from the compartment under her seat and begin to run to follow the guys. Funny thing is while I'm running I realize that Kerry was in the car with us and this is probably the most interesting car ride she's had. I begin to laugh ass i'm attempting to run. thinking she probably wishes we'd kept going!
I get to the fire and Rob, Robert, Elijah, Ke'A, and Hank are literally stomping on the edges. Somehow Rob has a baby blanket and is swatting out and smothering the flames. Elijah and Robert are stepping on the edges to contain it. While Ke'A and hank are digging and throwing handfuls of dirt onto the fires. I show up with the extinguisher Robert runs over grabs it for me and says, " Are you kidding me?" Apparently my efforts were the least effective. the extinguisher was empty. hahaha
Lucky Eleora comes up with a jug of water and between the water, and the dirt and the baby blanket, and I wouldn't want to forget Elijah melted shoes. (Robert's harness boots held up) We put the 2 fires out completely!
Looking back I'm impressed at just how well they were able to co ordinate there efforts and get it taken care of without any delegating!
Although the fun doesn't stop there. Remember we still have a broken down van, it's getting dark, it's getting cold, and a random traveler with us named Kerry.
We return to the van and literally watch as cars fly past us. At first I tried to flag a few of them down only to have them wave back at me! Even now I chuckle wondering if they feel their wave was helpful. basically what I am hearing is, " I see you but I'm not gonna help you, and I will ignore the fact that I see a million children standing around you needing help as well, I'm gonna keep driving. Good luck and have a nice day"
i know there are times when you must be careful and it's not a good idea...but if that's the attitude we all have I do believe we'd still be sitting there now!
Rob says to me as he notices I'm going to attempt someone to help us again, " Babe, the right people will stop." I relent and put my hand down and let it be. Just a few moments later a mustang pulls up and asks if they can help. She's so sweet but its a rental and they have no cables, not to mention we are a little nervous about driving being we just put out 2 fires the size of a kitchen table top moments earlier.
However, they DO have service! I call our insurance company and am resisting the urge to scream at the representative as she continually tells me they are trying to get a good location on us could I please tell her again whats the very closest intersection to us. I'm thinking," what part of I'm not from here, do you NOT understand?" not to mention in the middle of Hwy 180 just came from jct 64 and hwy 180 and have no FREAKING idea what intersection is ahead of me being I'm NOT FROM HERE!!!!!!!! (exhale)
okay I'm smiling again because it's actually quite humorous and the memories? Awesome!
So these 2 guys pull up while i'm on the phone with the insurance. They attempt to jump our van, it wont jump. They determine that our battery terminal post for the positive, has broken off inside the battery so it's not able to properly charge. They stick a 3/8 inch bolt into the terminal space and get us going to some degree. We figure it's the best chance we got. We start loading into our van and watch the 2 guys that helped us drive off in their truck. We are feeling good. Before we are loaded n it begins to make a sound like its losing power. We begin to get in a frenzy and are like push on the gas. Hoping this will encourage the van to keep going. Amazingly all these kid's who pretend to drive start to scream and panic that they don't know how. I believe I'm more in shock that they've lost their brains in this moment and can't remember which pedal is the gas than the fact that we are just about to be in the exact same position we were in before this began. These same kids that organized themselves in putting out 2 wildfires cant find the gas pedal! hoi!
The van dies and we are back to square one. Oh yeah, Kerry caught a ride into town with the Mustang folks. Funny thing when she got into their car Jill, the woman in the mustang, says to her, "You don't have a gun do you?" and then chuckles like she's just kidding. We all know she's not and Kerry answers quietly but matter of factley while shaking her head, "no". Although I'm thinking she should if she's gonna hitchhike on these roads alone! Scary! So, maybe not the exact same spot ;)
As we are standing there laughing about it wondering whats gonna happen next a blue minivan approaches. it begins to pull over which I believe prompted the silver sedan following it to pull over as well. Funny how our actions actually give permission to others to act.
The driver of the mini-van gets out and asks how he can help. Which i thought was interesting because I couldn't apply the Bill Engvil joke "Here's your sign" here because he didn't ask the obvious. Rob asks if hes got cables. While he's grabbing his cables the silver sedan pulls his car around and parks nose to nose with us. Clyde, the owner of the van crosses with his cables and we get another jump!
We let it charge a bit more than the last time. Rob shakes hands with the guy in the silver sedan and he drives away. Clyde on the other hand asked if he could follow us in to Flagstaff to make sure we are okay. My response catches in my throat a little because i remember the last guys that left us so quickly. How generous of him to be willing to not only assist a little but to make sure and follow through till the end. I agree and as soon as the doors shut on my van i drop it into drive and hit the gas. We are crawling along. The power in the battery is fading fast. I've got the pedal to the floor and am still watching the speed gauge drop from 50, 30, 20, dead on the side of the road. On a shoulder no less! it is now pitch black outside we have NO power and still no cell service and parked across from mile marker 240. The cute couple helping us Clyde and Tabby, approach the car and offer us their cell phone and to wait until help comes.
We are there for an hour and a half before the representative finally confirms that a tow truck is coming. By this time Highway Trooper John has arrived and begins to mention how bad of a spot this is to be in being its a bit of a blind spot. I can't help it I have to respond, " Yeah I thought it'd be the best place to stop" My comment reeks of sarcasms as i begin to giggle. "We hardly chose to break down here, in fact I'd be just as happy had we limped in to town." He looks at me knowingly but not appreciating my sarcasm. this makes me giggle to myself. So, being that the tow truck is on their way and the kids are freezing. Clyde and Tabby offer to give us a ride into town. Rob, Robert, and Elijah wait with the van for the tow truck. Trooper John, who is a great trooper (pun intended) waited for 2 hours before the tow truck finally showed up!
I went ahead with Ke'A and everyone under Hank we checked out a few places. Not knowing where to go I asked God to lead us and send Angels. We ended up at the Drury Inn. It is a beautiful homey hotel! It was clean, the staff was super friendly, Wes, Krystina, Genevieve, Bryan, and Jeff They took great care of us! The Drury inn also offered a hot breakfast, popcorn and drinks from 3-10 pm, AND dinner! Yes, I said dinner! Well, they call it a "kick-back" and you get a drink card for 3 drinks as well as they put out a spread of kid friendly food, is how I'd describe it. the first night was macaroni, chicken strips, baked potatoes, chili, nachos. The second night was Penne in marinera, meatball, salad, nachos,baked potatoes, and cheese broccoli soup!
So not only were we led to a nice hotel that was reasonably priced it fed us while we were there! Kind of a big deal when you have an unexpected expense like hotel stay and car repair.! So, the Drury Inn, awesome stay!
Our car was towed to KC's auto shop apparently our brake had seized up and that's where the sparks were coming from. They charged the battery rebuilt the drivers rear brake,(it's a drum brake) and Saturday morning we were on our way. The excitement continues but that'll be it's own story!
Be kind, Live happy, and DREAM!
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