Safe at Home!

It's now been two weeks that we've been back from our almost month long trip to Idaho and I miss it. I miss family, the country, the openness, and the relaxing environment. We drove out in June and Chris flew back after a week and flew back out on July 4th so we could begin our trek back.

This is the second time we've hit wildlife when driving across country but the first time we had to stop and take care of it before finishing.

We had just stopped for dinner in Sydney NE, headquarters for Cabela's, and were beginning to start our drive again. When out of the median flew a pheasant and I immediately thought, "We're going to hit it, there's no way we're going to miss it." Sure enough, SMACK, I killed my first pheasant. My instinct was to turn my head and when I turned I guess I swerved. Luckily Chris saw the bird too and put his hand up to the steering wheel and countered my swerve. I didn't think I swerved a lot but I'm grateful Chris had the instinct to put his hand there because who knows what could've happened. It could've been a big swerve and then an over correction and lets just stop there...

We pulled off at the next exit tried to work with our insurance, which was a little difficult, and ended up driving back to Sydney going 45 mph with our hazards on. Since it was July 4th there was no shot of beginning the process so we checked in to a hotel. I had glass every where on me and when I stepped out I tried to shake it off but there was so many little pieces that wouldn't come off. I gently tried rubbing it off but that didn't work either. I did manage not to get any more cuts other than the small ones I'd received from the first impact, and luckily no cuts on my face just one shard of glass was stuck in my jawline but that's it. You can't really see the glass but it was everywhere.

I tried to rinse off but I still felt like glass was everywhere. The boys wanted to go swimming so I went too. Much better after that.

It was a nice break to have Chris with us and just enjoy our little family. The next day no one had our windshield so they'd have to order it and do it the next day, Wednesday. After hanging out at Cabela's and swimming a lot we were ready to go. We were at Walmart getting some snacks for the trip when we got a call saying the windshield they received was cracked:(. So now there was no way we'd be out of there until Thursday, we went from planing on being home Tuesday morning to getting home Late Thursday early Friday.

Up until this point Chris had tried to squeeze and hour or two in of work here or there but after the phone call he said he needed to try and get in at least eight hours for the day and suggested we go to a park. Well that lasted 5 minutes. No one was there, the toys were mediocre at best, and it was hot. Luckily I thought to go to a library and did a quick search on our GPS and set off. It was a cute little library that had a toy section so it was perfect and we spent all our time there.

The next day our van was ready and we were off, after finding a place to vacuum out our van. They did a horrible job, very disappointed on that front. But our kids were happy we were eager to get going and we made it back without any other occurrences.

We're scheduled to go to Idaho again soon and I'm glad we'll be flying then!