October 29, 2009

Happy Birthday to me!!! And another year has gone by.
David woke me up at 5:45 am! WTF! He wanted an early start, I wanted a birthday sleep in! So woke up grumpy. Then it got from bad to bader :). Cold motor home and sweet David made breakfast....cold Muesli. Got grumpier! The street was iced over and we had to drive over this bridge nobody else had driven over in the morning at 7! Was sweating bullets but we did okay. Then I started with this migraine. Got worse by noon and rotten by about 2. The road was....you are right again.....boring, boring, boring. Nothing was out there but dry brown dirt. Then we got some rain and finally snow. After an hour of that the sun started to peak through and BANG!!!!, this loud noise like we drove over a big rock or something. David stopped immediately on the side of the freeway (very narrow at this point) and went to check if we lost something! Yep!...we blew a back tire! There are dual tires on the back of the coach so we had one left. We started to call frantically our road service. "Do you have a spare? asked the friendly assistant. No of course we don't! So now I started to work the Internet (thanks good for my Verizon Internet stick) while David drove with flashers on s l o w l y to the next exit. After about 6 hit and miss calls we found a tire store who sent us somebody to check out the damage. We then slowly followed him 13 miles to his truck tire repair shop. Meanwhile it was 6pm. They started to work on the RV while we decided to go to Walmart a couple of exits away to get some stuff. David unhitched his car and oh s**t the battery was dead. Now they put me in the car and pushed the car backwards then around the RV to the front all the while I was trying to steer the dang vehicle with no power steering, hanging for dear life with my full weight on the steering wheel. Have you ever tried to steer a car with no power? Not easy especially if 2 strong guys push you and you have about 5 seconds to make a full turn. Phew!
Anyhow, got the car jumped from the motor home and headed to Walmart. There I finally got my birthday present...... a view of the most wonderful mullet hair cut I have ever seen. Long stringy hair to the middle of the back and a less then a quarter inch cut on top. Gorgeous! And dang if I didn't forgot my camera on the seat in the motor home. I ALWAYS have that camera in my purse but today. But even so, this was absolutely the highlight of the day. After this sighting and buying a new battery for the car because the old one wasn't holding the charge anymore, we went back to the tire place where our rig was waiting with a hefty bill attached.
Just then Gabriel called and lightened up my day with a sweet Happy Birthday call. Michelle text earlier and so my Birthday ended with a present of 2 tires and a car battery. On we went for a bout 20 more miles and pulled into a roadside RV park in Elk City. We then went out for my birthday dinner at Subway since it was 10pm by then and that was right next to the RV park. But the best thing was that David fixed the heater and and we crawled into bed in a warm 68 degree coach!