Journey Home From Hell

While our entire time spent at Disneyland went absolutely PERFECT, the ride home---not so much. Tuesday night Court took the van to get it gassed up and ready for our ride home Wednesday morning. He says he was turning onto the freeway when he heard a huge thud! The window on our driver side sliding door had been hit--FATALLY. At that point there was just a hole, and while the glass was completely shattered it was still in place. So we took duct tape and trash bags and completely taped up the window in place. We figured it was good to go. I really wish I had taken shots before we left California Ü

Well about an hour or so outside of California we are flying down the highway at 80 miles or so when there is a huge phhoosh sound and suddenly the ENTIRE window is GONE! The sound scared us half to death. So we pulled over to the side of the road and created a new window with trash bags only---it was a VERY noisy car ride the rest of the way home.

But the force of the second 'blowout' actually managed to break up the glass and send it flying ALL over our car. So we typed in carwash into our GPS and managed to vacuum out the entire car so we weren't sitting on shards of tempered glass for the rest of our trip.

Here is our temporary fix--that did manage to get us the rest of the way home...

And here are shots from the inside and out of what was left.

It really ended up being a pretty clean break.

But don't think that was all, oh no, I wish.

We had stopped for lunch in Indio at McDonalds to eat, and to let everyone use the bathroom. We had been on the road again about 20 minutes when Laetner hollers that he needs to go poop. I figured it wasn't too pressing a matter since he had just used the rest room at McDonalds, but apparently he didn't go poop when he had the chance. We start searching for a rest stop of some sort when he really starts hopping around and holding his bum. And then right there in the car he poops himself. Grrr-osss! I am sure some passer-bys had MORE than an eyeful, cuz we stripped him down on the side of the road and TRIED to clean him up. Becuz we had not brought Waverly with us I had taken the wipes out of my purse, and we literally had NOTHING to wipe him with. Luckily we did have garbage bags on hand (becuz of the broken window) so his clothes were quarantined to there and we found one of wavees diapers in the glove box and put it on him.

Good time were most definitely NOT had by all!

The crowning moment of the day was we FINALLY made it back to our house. We walked in and began getting dinner ready for the kids only to find that our microwave was DEAD! They promise to have the part here by CHRISTMAS EVE---wow merry christmas to us!