Unexpected Adventure

I am tired! Holy wow was this weekend fun and long and eventful and jam packed with great stuff.  As I previously posted, we traveled to Broghan's parent's home for deer camp.  Friday's drive was wonderful and both kids did great.  Then the weekend brought on hunting obviously, eating way more food than expected, going to an indoor pool, going to see Buddy the Cake Boss, watching the Packers game, a lot of play time for the kids and the boys were successful at getting at least one buck (10-pt).

Now where you might ask does the adventure come in?  Well...the first 2 hours of our drive home were fairly un-eventful.  We had stayed until around 6:30PM since we weren't exactly in a hurry to get back for anything other than to get home, unload the car and go to sleep.  As I said at about the 2 hour mark we were passing by a cop car pulled over to the side with a tow truck just ahead of it.  There were literally four cars on the road either ahead of us or behind us.  I didn't exactly see what happened since I wasn't driving but as I looked to the right I saw a car in the ditch and commented to Broghan - oh that sucks - then looked forward only to see a car right in front of us (mind you the speed limit is 65 - so we're traveling right around that) slamming on it's breaks! WTH!  Broghan slams the breaks and swerves...we barely missed the rear bumper of that car and Broghan did amazing at re-directing and controlling the car, however, we did end up down in the embankment between the east bound and west bound lanes.  Thanks to the recent snow falls and the 26 degrees of last night, we were stuck.   Oh and don't worry...the other car DROVE AWAY!!! WHAT!? How can you watch a car swerve and skid off the road because of your stupidity and then DRIVE AWAY! What if we had flipped??? Seriously, so irresponsible and baffling to me.

Anyways, as I mentioned, we had just passed not only a police car but also a tow truck.  Broghan threw on a hat and his coat and trekked back the few hundred yards to see if when they were done with the accident if they could come pull us out.  Of course they could but it meant waiting just over an hour - in a stationary van - with a two year old strapped into his car seat and a 7 month old who HATES her car seat - and our dog.  Blessings from God, Broghan knew what to do and the kids and Marvin all did great and stayed calm and content while waiting and for the last 45 minutes home.

Needless to say it was a drive home to remember and hopefully one to never be repeated.  In the aftermath, the kiddos and I will be heading over to Car-X this morning to get the car checked out.  Nothing appears to be wrong but when going from 65 to 0 in a short distance and sliding into a ditch...who knows!

Until next time....