Monday, September 25, 2006
Our Amazingly Wacky Trip...
We decided at about 3:30 on Saturday afternoon to go to Austin.....so at about 5pm we left headed to Austin to go and see Split Lip Rayfield play their last show in Austin ever for their farewell tour since one of the members has terminal cancer...we had to pick up R's Hubby and Jade on the way and take them with us since R had decided that if nobody else could make up their mind on whether they were going or not she would leave us all behind and go on her own...I don't wanna go into it here except to say...hmm that's weird.. So we were on the road headed to Austin when this really awful storm came upon us...high winds, lightning, the whole nine yards...I even think I heard some hail hitting the car but I can't be sure... So we get an hour from the house in a town called Steadham outside of Navasota TX.....when the entire powersteering assembly and pully falls off of the van...yes you read that right...FALLS OFF!!!!(Oh and we lost the entire serpentine belt too) which means that we are driving in the dark..in a storm..with no power steering on a curvy ass country road in the middle of nowhere....and since there was no belt the alternator was not charging the battery so we nearly lost the headlights before we found a gas station to pull into...it was really terrifying... So we are stuck in the middle of nowhere.....and Bart remembers that one of his good friends has a large flatbed truck(big flatbed heavy duty towtruck that is) so he calls him in on a favor....this amazing friend goes to our house, picks up my husband's huge Dodge Hemi truck on his flatbed....brings it to us and switches it out for the broke down van and drops the broke down van off at the repair shop for us... We made it to Austin at 11:45pm right as Split Lip Rayfield was about to go on stage.... It was an awesome show...I only wish I had gotten there earlier so I could have seen the White Ghost Shivers.. All in all it was a good night...we got to the hotel at about 4am..slept until 7:30 and hauled ass back home to get the kids.... As a matter of fact the van has already been repaired and I have it back...and it was under 300 bucks to fix... The repair man did tell me however that he had never seen anything like that happen...to a minivan and suggested that I take it to the nearest dealership and trade it in before something else more important falls off going down the road..LOL.. Maybe I will take his advice on that..maybe I will.. Cat
Technorati : Austin, Broke Down, Split Lip Rayfield, White Ghost Shivers
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