When it rains it pours!!!!

Well things only went from bad to worse!!!! My last post was about my car dieing, so it was a bad week. It only got worse.....


I was soooo excited on Sunday because we were leaving for vacation to go to Orlando. We get the van all packed up and ready to go. We are literally backing up out of the drive way on our way about 2 pm and the battery light comes on in the van. UGH!!! SOOO, we pull back up in the driveway and Brett goes inside to call our mechanic. We had shut off the car and I tried to crank it up again and it wouldn't. The mechanic comes to the house and tests the alternator that we had replaced on Saturday and apparently it was bad!!!!! We weren't going to be able to get a new alternator until Monday and get it fixed until Monday night. We sat around the house for a couple of hours trying to decide what to do...... we FINALLY decided that we would take Brett's car.


We unload the van and put everything in Brett's car. Put the turtle on the top, get the luggage in, get the kids settled in and we are on our way! YAAAAY! We get about 15 minutes down the road and I casually ask Brett if he has our resort conformation and Sea World/Busch Gardens tickets. Um NO!!! We turn around and head back to the house to pick these things up! We pick them up and head back on the road. YAAAAY! We are traveling down the road having a good ole time. We stopped at McDonald's and got something to eat.

About 11PM we stop to get something to drink and for a potty break. I decided to drive for a while so Brett could sleep. I'm chugging along and jammin to the radio and i notice that the temperature gauge is starting to go up. It slowly creeps into the red. So i pull off the side of the road and we sit there for a little while and let it go back down. We head off again and after a few minutes it starts to go up again so i start driving a little faster to get to the exit ramp. As i am pulling off of the exit ramp the car. shuts. off!!!!! GREAAT!!!! I let the car coast as far as it would and pull way off the road. We have previously had overheating problems with his car and if it would sit for a while it would always cool off and do fine. SOOOOO, from about 12 midnight we(Me, Brett, my two kids and my inlaws) are sitting on the side of I-95 in the pitch black dark. We call a wrecker to come and tow the car for us, we waited for about and hour and 10 minutes. It was 2:30 by the time the guy came. He was nice enough to take the kids and the inlaws to the nearest hotel for us and then return to pick Brett and i up along with the car. We finally get settled into the hotel around 3:30 AM Monday morning. We all crashed and decided we would figure out what to do the next morning.


Fast forward to Monday morning. Brett and I get up and he goes out and the car wont crank. We called the wrecker again and he took the car, Brett and I to the garage. We waited around for a little bit for them to check the car out. There was a walgreens across the street so we walked over there and got something to drink. While there the guy from the garage called and said that he couldn't fix it and that he said he thought it was a head gasket. Which is what we already had fixed on his car. Poor Brett was losing it at this point. All we could think about was that we were stranded in Florida 400 miles from home, no car and no way to get our kids to a vacation. VERY STRESSFUL!!! We decide to leave the car there at the garage and we walk back to the hotel. I think it was about 3 miles. Maybe a little less. It was really hot!!!

Brett's sister and brother and his family decided that they were going to come and get us. They arrived early Tuesday AM about 1 i think. Darlynn brought her suburban and Brad brought his truck with a car trailer. We picked up the car and headed home. After a few stops and some food we finally got home about 6:30 PM tonight.

I am very sad that we didn't get to finish our vacation but i am thankful to God that we all made it home safe and that we have family and friends that we can rely on. So here we are at home with 2 broke cars, just trying to calm down and laugh at the situation. That is a very hard thing to do.

Hopefully the week will get better!