Sunday drive
Jun 27
I should have written this on Sunday but by the time Eric and I got home, 9:30pm I just couldn’t do it. Here’s the story of our LONG LONG Sunday drive. My mom called earlier in the week to let me know that she was going to be in Lincoln City, OR on Sunday through Tuesday. She asked if Eric and I wanted to, we could come to the beach and visit on Sunday. So that was our plan. we’d get up Sunday morning, drive the 2 1/2 hours to Lincoln City, see my mom, Israel, Penny and the 4 kids and Sophia. We got up early on Sunday, OK 8:30, but that’s early for Eric, Mr. I hate mornings. So we’re in the car and we stop at Coffee People for some espresso fuel and think we’ll get something to eat while we’re there. Of course the one we stop at doesn’t have food and the guys were so slow it took forever, last time we walk up instead of using the drive thru. Finally we get in the car and drive. We’re listening to music looking at the landscape, talking about where we’d like to build, what’s important to us.. yada..yada.. yada. We’re making really good time and thinking we’ll be there before the parade at noon when…. we hit a brick wall, not really but figuratively. All of the sudden, when we’re something like 30 miles from Lincoln City the traffic is bumper to bumper and not moving. So we sit, and wait… and wait.. and a County Mountie comes by to tell us the road will be close for about an hour. Apparently some woman decided she needed to drive too fast, hit another truck and they hit two motorcycles. Needless to say the two drives of the motorcycles were dead on the scene and the passenger of one of the motorcycles was Life Flighted to the hospital, of course the woman that caused the accident wasn’t hurt. They were wondering if alcohol was involved at all because supposedly she came from the casino. So we sit there wondering if we should turn around or not. It was sometime then that I called my mom to tell them we were stuck in traffic and i didn’t know when/if we’d be there. She told me she was in the same traffic. i guess they were about a mile ahead of us or something. The bad thing for her was that the four kids were in the car with her and they’d all been there for over an hour so the kids weren’t happy. After a lot of hemming and hawing and trying to decided what to do, we turned around. The funny, or not so funny thing was once we turned around a bunch of people that had turned with us turned back around again because supposedly there was an accident the other way. of course there were no officers there to direct traffic and tell us what was going on. Mom and I were standing on the road talking about it all when suddenly the cars started going so mom and I jumped in with Eric and drove down to Dallas and at some point we pulled over for something to eat, quick just in a mini-mart. I had felt so bad, Eric was STARVING and was sort of irritated that we didn’t go back to McMinville and eat. If we had, I’m sure he and I wouldn’t have gone to Lincoln City but by the time we knew that wasn’ happening we just decided to go with the flow for the day. Then we were off to Newport and then Lincoln City. What was supposed to take 2 1/2 hours took more than 6 hours. I mean we could have almost driven to Othello and back. What a crazy day. We did get to go to the beach with the kids and took some rad pictures. I’ll post those tonight when I’m at home. We ended up staying in Lincoln City for a few hours, went to eat and then headed home. It was about 9:30 by the time we got home. What a long day, all because some idiot had to drive too fast.
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I focus on developing creative and innovative training solutions in my job, specifically looking for opportunities to utilize social media, informal learning, mobile strategies, and cutting edge solutions.
In my personal life I enjoy wine touring with my husband and friends. In addition, I enjoy scrapbooking, sewing, knitting, and making/enjoying great food. 
