Chuds: Draggin' my feet!

I don't know why, but I am totally not wanting to take the time to post on the blog lately. I think because my next story is so long and it's making me not want to get on and write about it. So, I'm going to touch the highlights and move on! I'm now 2 month behind! Yikes!

So my dear mother was sweet enough to drive back from Charleston to PA with me, that way I could stay almost a whole nuther week. Haha. I don't know how to spell that phrase. Someone asked me that the other day and now that I'm typing it I realize it must be made up. Oh well, so we started out and had to pull over probably 3 times in the first hour. It was not a good start! Most of the day was fine and the kids did really well. We had planned on making it back around midnight, but we ran into the mother of all storms! Like really! I was waiting for the cow to circle around us. Really I was waiting for something to crash through my window. I had driven all day and finally switched Mom and of course that was when the storm hit. It was crazy!!! We had to pull over under and overpass with several other cars to take cover because the rain was falling in sheets and we couldn't see. We finally ventured out again and there were tree parts strewn all about the road. In some areas, just the whole tree was down! Matter of fact, we ran over one of these said trees. Truly. A dang tree trunk lay almost all the way across the road and there was no avoiding it. And as if that weren't bad enough, shortly after we ran into a tree!!! It had snapped and was hanging over the freeway and we didn't see it until it was too late and I just yelled, "go through it", which looking back may have been a dumb idea, but we couldn't have swerved into the other lane, so we were blessed! If we had been in our suburban we would have had that trunk smash right into the window glass, but in the van, we missed the trunk and the branches just scraped along the top. It was like this chaos for a while. Finally we pulled over to try and get a car phone charger at walmart and people were driving in the wrong direction towards us and turns out a tree had fallen and knocked out the power lines. It was a mad crazy event so after a while of this we finally went and got a hotel and called it a night. At that point it was going to be nearly 3 AM before we got in. It was a good thing we stopped because the next morning we saw trees all along the freeway. It would have been a very long night. The news reported it as tornado strength wind but because it was so wide spread it couldn't be called one, but I believe it! That wind was CUH-RAY-ZEE!!!

We did make it and that night we took all the kids out to dinner which we haven't done for a long time. It was a great mexican place just down the street.

Afterwards, we had a fireworks show in town, so that was fun. It was great weather and just a nice evening. It was nice having Wee-mama with us. We walked around a little then headed back to our car to join the rest of the hicks! It was a good start to July!