A long, long weekend….I had asked off for this Friday(now yesterday) over a week ago. On this past Monday I was told I could not have off. On Wed. someone else in my dept was told she could have the day off, then on Thursday yet another rep was told to take off if she wanted. Overhearing all of that made me realize that I had just as much right to use my vacation time as everyone else, so i resigned to call in sick. Which meant being able to leave Thursday night after work (since Dean had gotten Friday off, officially) to go to Ohio.
We left home around 7 and set out for our trip. We hadn’t eaten dinner so around 8 we stopped at a very country buffet in the middle of nowhere and ate some great food while Caleb got adoring smiles from other patrons. We stopped several more times, mostly because I had to use the bathroom. Around midnight we finally were getting off of the turnpike. I had just switched w/ Dean so I was driving the car when the screeching of a belt started to get worse. It always screeches off and on and as we heading uphill I said a silent pray for God to fix the noise or at least get us there safely. Not even a minute later we heard a loud snap. I kept driving as Dean said it was a noise in the music we were listening too. Not five minutes later I looked at the gauges and the car was overheating, it was in the red. I pulled over and sure enough the belt had broke. We stopped and started several times in an attempt to get to an exit w/ a hotel and a service station, and after a cop stopped and told us the closest one was five miles away we set out again. We finally made it to a hotel, oddly enough the one we had said we were going to stay at that night when we had seen the sign for it on the turnpike. So we spent most of Friday at the hotel while a nearby shop fixed the car for an outrageous amt of labor cause the parts were less than $50. Nonetheless, we finally made it to meet Dean’s parents for dinner around 7:30 on Friday night. By the time we got home from dinner and going to the coffee house and settled into bed it was after midnight.
Now it’s Saturday morning and we’ve no plans and this just sitting around is driving me mad! I sat around all day Thurs. and Friday and I need to get out. Meanwhile caleb is miserable. He was fevered all day yesterday and Thurs. evening. We think it’s just teeth. We hope its just teeth. Tonight all of Dean’s neices and nephews and some of their friends are coming to spend the night here, at Dean’s parents, at least 6 kids, not counting Caleb! So I think we are going to spend the night at Dean’s sisters house. Well I better go help my hubby calm a screaming kiddo. Hope the weekend gets better soon…
