VEGAS!

Well, our trip to Vegas was a success but not without a little adventure. We set off Thursday morning. Dayv had to work so it was me and the kids along with Dayv's brother Jared, his wife Toni and their baby girl Eden. We were about 7 miles outside of Cedar City when we heard this load pop and knew our tire was flat. Jared was able to safety and quite easily get over to the side of the road (thanks to prayer!). We got out of the van and saw that the front right tire had basically blown up. Jared got out the jack and started jacking it up when the van moved forward. At this point we decided to get everybody out of the van and wait in the blazing sun on the side of the freeway. Jared once again tries to jack up the van and this time the jack bends right over in half! I mention I have some kind of roadside service with Allstate and Jared tells me to give them a call because there is nothing more he can do. They tell me they are sending someone over from Cedar City. He calls me and says he will be about 20 minutes. We wait, and wait and wait. Keep in mind we are all standing on the side of the freeway in the hot sun with four kids and obviously not trying to fix the tire! So we are kind of amazed that nobody has stopped and start joking that everybody will start stopping as soon as it gets close to the time this guy is suppose to show up. Sure enough, two people stop one right after the other to see if we need help and right after that a cop stops. The cop tells us to cancel the roadside service because he has a heavy duty jack in his car. I call and the guy says he is still about 15 minutes away! Well, we get the donut on and decide we don't really want to drive the rest of the way to Vegas on it so we stop in Cedar City and get a used tire from Sinclair put on. The kids were being so good throughout this whole ordeal as you can see from these pictures taken while we were waiting. Maybe they were just happy to be in an air conditioned building! The rest of our vacation was very uneventful, thank goodness! We all had a great time with all the family that came. (my camera's batteries died after we actually arrived in Vegas so no pictures from there, sorry!)