Good morning fellow Disers!!
I have about 22 hours until I leave and the boys still think we are going to the beach!! We have decided to stop at the rest area on the turnpike and give them a note I made saying "Surprise, we are going to Disney World right now!!" We were just going to wait until we went under the arch and they realized where we were but decided that this way we can be sure to have the video camera running for their reaction!!
Please pray that my trip will go better than my week has so far! On Monday the A/C in the house starting acting up. Wouldn't get below 84 in here. Finally got a repairman on Wednesday morning. That cost $200 we hadn't planned on.
Then the really weird one was Wednesday evening. I picked my 14 yr old DS up from football camp at the high school and as I'm driving home all of the sudden a van about 4 car lengths in front of me starts swerving. After he gets moved over all I see is a tire rolling straight at me at a high rate of speed!!!
Anyway, I swerved

and tried to avoid it but it hit my front passenger side and tore it to pieces!! Bumpers torn in half, headlight is gone and my front fender is buckled, plus I think it bent the tie rod because I drove it the mile home after the police did their report and it didn't drive right at all. It was towed to the shop yesterday!
This was the car we were supposed to be driving to Disney! Now we have a $250 deuctible to pay plus we will have to take my DH's monster of a truck! Its a nice truck but so long that I get nervous about driving it. Its a long bed, crew cab diesel F250!! There goes the gas budget for the trip too. Instead of the 30 mpg my cars gets we are looking at maybe 17??
The police and I found the tire that hit me. It was a complete wheel and tire!! No wonder it hit so hard! The police believe that it probably had fallen off a trailer or something and was laying in the road and the semi truck that was 2 cars ahead of me had probably hit it and made it stand up and start rolling because the wheel was bent. I wasn't as scared as I was mad about my car until the police pointed something out to me. He said to be glad that I swerved as far as I did and almost missed it because if it had hit the center of my bumper it could very well have come through the windshield and killed one or both of us!!!
I must have hugged my son 20 times that night!! Thank goodness no one was hurt but it sure put a wrench in my plans!! My DS14 flew back to see his Dad yesterday. He made it just fine, but I was worried after all the bad luck this week!
Things have to get better........right??? right???