Vacation, Part 1

We had planned to leave Saturday morning around 3am. Unfortunately that Friday I was useless - so tired that all I could do was lay on the couch and direct the kids. When The Husband got home from work (and ran all of the errands that I had been unable to do) he and the kids finished packing inside, then went out to pack the van (mostly in the dark). Around 9pm a huge storm blew up and we lost power for a few hours, so we decided to finish packing at daybreak and didn't actually leave until 8am. We later learned that a neighbor's house was hit by lightning and had the electric panel and many appliances fried.

I managed to sleep in the car (miraculous, since I NEVER sleep in the car) for much of the trip, but I'm told that it wasn't a pleasant drive. LOTS of traffic and when we were in northern Massachusettes I saw something that I've never seen in my van before:

Yes, we really were travelling NE but we were sitting in the gas station parking lot at the time of the photo...

We finally arrived but I was in such a fog that I barely remember that day -- I even skipped church on Sunday morning. Dad commented that I would do anything to avoid hearing him preach. Darn! He figured it out! Yep, that's why I purposely contracted an incurable neurological disease