Our whirlwind drive through Maryland and Ohio was completed about 11PM last night! We drove from CT to Maryland and dropped off a buck. We then spent the night in a hotel and in the morning drove to pick up a buck. Next we headed for the Ohio Valley Mall in Ohio to pick up a 6 week old buckling that had flown in from California the week before. We then started on the ten hour drive back home to CT. 1300 Miles in 39 hours!
It was basically uneventful except for a few scary moments on the drive home through PA. I was driving and noticed a cloud formation that really belonged in Kansas, not PA, off to our left. I pointed it out to Sam. He said it didn't appear to be rotating, but then he added, "It does seem to have a serious updraft in the front though." We started to get into some seriously blinding rain at that point, and I slowed to a crawl on the highway with my four-ways going. Then it started to hail. Little pea sized hail. Sam said, "Aim, you might want to find a bridge to get under." I saw one up ahead just as the hail changed to dime sized and the wind started to really blow. We got up under the bridge and pulled over. The hail was now quarter sized and the tractor trailer truckers were blowing by us just centimeters from our mirror (probably really inches but it felt like centimeters as each time one passed the van rocked back and forth)! About ten other drivers had pulled over with us and we all waited out the storm, while Sam and I prayed that neither the passing trucks nor the storm did us all in.
After several minutes the hail stopped, the rain lessened, the wind stopped blowing, and we eased back out onto the highway with everyone else. We never did find out if it was a tornado or just a really bad storm cell.
We are home now. The new goats are in their pens and seem to be happy to be on solid ground and none the worse for wear, after so many hours of travel. Sam left for the firehouse this morning and I will be running about retrieving the girls from their various friends' houses before going to church. A nice quiet afternoon at home is on tap for today.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Made It Home
Home, sweet home!
Thankfully our trip to Kentucky and back was uneventful. We arrived in Louisville on Friday night at about 11:30PM. We slept for 6 hours and checked out. Our hotel room was very nice. A king sized bed, a "kitchen" area with sink, fridge and coffee pot, a huge flat screen TV, a walk-in closet, a good sized bathroom, a "lounge" area with two fold out sofa beds. The room was huge and we wondered why we can't get rooms like that when we travel with the kids? When we traveled with the girls we always ended up in teeny tiny rooms with 2 full sized beds and just enough room to squeeze around them.
After checking out, we went to the Kentucky Exposition center to meet up with our new kidd: Kroquet (we'll call her Kay). We finally found her and she is beautiful! She placed 14th in her class of over 20 at the National competition. Her owner explained that she didn't show her herself as she was showing another goat, but she could see that the handler was having a hard time getting Kay to set up. So she probably would have placed higher had she been behaving in the ring.
We then were "on the road again" at 7:30 AM. Because of the goat, we had to stop more frequently and for longer periods. We pulled into our drive-way at 11:30 PM last night. We saw cars from nearly every state excpet Alaska and Hawaii and have decided that New York and New Jersey drivers are the rudest and most aggressive drivers out there.
Thankfully our trip to Kentucky and back was uneventful. We arrived in Louisville on Friday night at about 11:30PM. We slept for 6 hours and checked out. Our hotel room was very nice. A king sized bed, a "kitchen" area with sink, fridge and coffee pot, a huge flat screen TV, a walk-in closet, a good sized bathroom, a "lounge" area with two fold out sofa beds. The room was huge and we wondered why we can't get rooms like that when we travel with the kids? When we traveled with the girls we always ended up in teeny tiny rooms with 2 full sized beds and just enough room to squeeze around them.
After checking out, we went to the Kentucky Exposition center to meet up with our new kidd: Kroquet (we'll call her Kay). We finally found her and she is beautiful! She placed 14th in her class of over 20 at the National competition. Her owner explained that she didn't show her herself as she was showing another goat, but she could see that the handler was having a hard time getting Kay to set up. So she probably would have placed higher had she been behaving in the ring.
We then were "on the road again" at 7:30 AM. Because of the goat, we had to stop more frequently and for longer periods. We pulled into our drive-way at 11:30 PM last night. We saw cars from nearly every state excpet Alaska and Hawaii and have decided that New York and New Jersey drivers are the rudest and most aggressive drivers out there.
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