It's been quite some time since I have last been on here, but I knew that was going to happen working 2 jobs and just trying to keep a little bit of a social life around here.
I left off by telling you I was taking a trip to Michigan and boy was it a trip. And not in a good way by any means. I left early Saturday morning with nothing buy happy thoughts of a stress free weekend. Knowing that the only thing separating me from fun times was a 6 hour drive. And needless to say that 6 hour drive turned into a 12 hour one. You might think did she get lost? Get stuck in major Labor day weekend traffic somewhere? No. None of that. I was flying high and making good time. I made it to Indiana and was about 20 miles in, when I looked down at my temperature and gauge and it was on hot. I started to panic. I was literally in the middle of nowhere. I knew the rest stop was about 5 miles up the road, but decided to let my car cool, so I pulled over. I saw some smoke start to come out of my hood and realized that wasn't a good thing. I checked the fluids in every compartment I could think of. Everything seemed to be in working order. I called my dad and told him what was going on. He talked me through things and I decided an hour after I had originally pulled over to go on ahead and push my car to the next rest stop. I made it. I decided that I needed to check everything again and that's when I found that my radiator was completely dry. Obviously I had a leak somewhere and it was a matter of finding it. I wasted quite a bit of money at the gas station on oil, coolant and the like. After about another hour or so, a nice man came by and helped me out. He found the source of my problem, a major hose that was leaking coolant. Unfortunately, there wasn't much I could do about it. I tried to patch it up with some heavy duty tape and thought it would work. All this time I called my dad about 50 times and then had my sister and her husband coming out to meet me and pick me up. My dad thought I'd be able to make it to the next city which was about 15 miles away. I decided to give it a try only to make it about 2 miles away before my car gave out on me. So there I sat in the middle of nowhere crying hysterically in the pouring rain alone. Eventually my sister made it out and I wasn't alone, but I felt bad for them having to drive all the way out. My car got towed to a city a few miles back the opposite direction. I got the car fixed but we didn't leave until about 330ish and still had to drive another 3 plus hours. That set the stage for the rest of the weekend. We didn't do much but hang around, which wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to do some more fun things. I came back on Monday with no problems. Thank goodness.
I will fill you in later on details of my bosses daughters birthday party and a Packer party.
Peace&Love
~L
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