Trip #1 – Random 4 Day Weekend
This weekend became a 4 day weekend, I assume because my husband was in the field for the whole week. We got up around 1AM to get on the road so we could be home by mid morning on Friday. That was the plan anyway. While driving southbound on I95, we ran over some debris in the road. We pulled over on the side of the interstate, it is dark, drizzling rain, and semi trucks rushing by…David hops out to check out the car. The smell of gasoline permeated the entire car and surrounding area and then we could hear (and see) gasoline pouring out of the bottom of the car. The gas tank had been punctured. While David had a mini panic attack and subsequently a come to Jesus meeting, I called 911 and OnStar (which by the way, they did NOT detect that our vehicle had been in an accident and we were disabled on the side of the road). Four fire trucks, three police cars, and one tow truck later, the spill was cleaned and we were sitting in front of a closed body shop waiting for them to open. Once they opened, they checked out our car, took us to breakfast, ordered us a rental car, and we were on our way again! I would just like to say to the person that left their RED car bumper in the middle of I-95: you owe me a NEW gas tank and a tank of gas...geeze people! How about some responsibility!
We arrived home around 4PM. The day was MUCH longer than we had ever anticipated, but we made it home safely. That night we had a family dinner at my grandparent’s house – and also told the family about the BIG news. Nobody knew we were coming down except my grandparents and my aunts, so my mom was completely shocked! Can’t you tell by her expression?! It was priceless!
I have a video of how we let the cat out of the bag…but I am having technical difficulties getting it loaeded...I will continue to work on it!
They spelled Surprise wrong…but it’s ok because I got a discount and we ate that part first...trying to look at the glass half full! ;-)
The rest of the weekend we saw more family, went to Mule Day (family tradition!) and saw our church family. There are now NINE girls at our church that are preggers...its just crazy! Here's 3 of us!
Monday we made the trek back to Ft. Bragg - looking forward to a 3 day work week and then going back home for Veteran’s Day.
Trip #2 – Veteran’s Day Weekend
Well, this weekend was SUPPOSED to be a 4 day weekend – but it turned out it was only a 3 day weekend b/c David’s unit scheduled to receive all their deployment gear Monday afternoon...(and yes I said deployment! It changes literally every single day, so once we have some more accurate information on it, I will be letting everyone know how that is going.) Yes, I know it is only one day difference, but when you have to drive 9 hours each way it makes a HUGE difference. The whole weekend felt rushed, but it made me thankful that we were able to take a n impromtu trip home the previous weekend. We left early Friday morning, made a pit stop to pick up the car (it was half way between here and there, which played into our decision to go all the way home too). Everything was fine with the car – good as new! We made it back home and spent time with family and friends and then came back to Ft. Bragg on Sunday.
Sunday we will be leaving to go to Washington DC for a lieutenant’s retreat. I am very excited and hope that we can meet some other nice people and built lasting relationships. When we get back, we will be piling up in the car to head home for Thanksgiving. We are so excited to be able to come home for the holidays – and yes, for a THIRD time this month!
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