Adventure...

You gotta love the timing of life. Always an adventure. Everything has been perfect since we've been married, we are so blessed, so I guess it was our turn for a little change. Ha.
So Jon's car, the Polka Dotted Wonder, has seen better days. The paint alone is a sight to see, but the sun roof doesn't work, there's an oil leak, the windows in the back don't stay up, and the newest thing is that there was a leak in the radiator. No worries, last time Jon took the car in they said to just keep up on adding the oil and coolant and we'd be ok. Woot.

So Saturday was going to be a long day, but we were ready for it... or so we thought. We were helping out with Governor's Day up at Rice Eccles for Argosy (Jon's work). It would have been annoying for Jon to work another Saturday, but I got to go with him. (I even got an Argosy shirt to look official!) We had to be there at 7:00 AM. Woot. All the stuff was in Jon's car so we took it with out thinking about it. We have a fun time playing games with the kiddos, making snow cones, and handing out balloons. We left at noon to be down to Provo by 2:00. We couldn't get into our car because of the car next to us, so Jon took the opportunity to fill up the car with the needed oil and coolant. All filled up we were good to go...

We got to lunch and come out and there is a puddle of coolant in the parking lot coming out of Jon's car. Oops. But we had to hurry and figured we would be ok. We thought about trading cars, but again, no time. So we head to Provo. Note: this was a very hot day!

Almost to BYU where we're excited to see "World of Dance" we're on University Parkway, so close, then the light comes on... we're overheating... no big deal... we're almost there... then the smoke... just a little on one side... then a lot out of both sides! Luckily we were right by a gas station so we pull in. We park, Jon gets out to scope out the situation and this little old man looks at me and says "That can't be good" and he was right. Jon opens the hood and coolant is spuing out of the radiator!!! No joke, it was everywhere. There's a huge crack in the radiator and we're stuck. The cute old man comes over and he just happens to be a mechanic. He looks at the car and talks to Jon about options. The only option really is to find a ride home and get a new radiator on Monday. Awesome. Since we would have to wait for a ride anyway the man offers to drive us to BYU so we can see the rest of the dance show. He was sweet. So at least we got to see some dancing and some folk dance friends as we waited.


To understand the awesome timing... both of our Dads are out of town, Jimmy is going to Homecoming so Mom is helping him, and Cami is doing his date's hair, My mom has a quilt show and none of my brothers can help. So we have to wait a few hours before any help can come. And we're buying house, we close next week, so we can't do anything big with money untill all that is done. Woot.

Luckily Tom and Mom come down with the truck and a tow rope. Both Jon and Tom have seen Dad do this before but have never done it themselves. Mom and I just laugh as we're freaking out about it all. The boys figure it out. Jon's car is a Saturn and most of the front and frame is made out of plastic, ok, basically I think we're going to die! Ha. So we get ready to go and I decide to ride with Jon in the car... if anything happened I didn't want him to be alone! So we start off... being towed. It was SO Jerky! I get car sick so I'm thinking the whole time I'm either going to throw up, or we're going to rip off the bottom of the car! The first 3 minutes were horrible!! I knew this was going to be the longest drive home in my life!! But luckily Tom and Jon are amazing and they figure it out and it's smooth sailing. But as we're riding home the car starts making all sorts of noises... ha... everything is breaking. All we can do is laugh!!



















We make it home safe... laughing all the way. Mom and I are texting the whole time because she can see the look of panic on my face in the rear view mirror. Ha. We park the car at the Bay's and say goodbye for awhile.
We're still deciding what to do, whether we should fix the radiator or just buy a new car. Of course we would need to buy a new car when we're buying a new house! But with our new longer commute who knows how long the car would have lasted anyway!

You gotta love adventures in life!