During the summer Loren and I work at the Museum of Natural Science doing summer camps. The camps are two weeks teaching and one week off, so we were very lucky to have a long fourth of July weekend and the following week off, and we decided to visit Loren’s parents, who live in McAllen, TX.
Our trip down was very exciting, we are exchanging Loren’s car for a couple of weeks while his wonderful dad does some MAJOR work on it. First, there is no AC, it’s hot, it’s July, it’s Texas, and it takes 6 hours to get the valley (McAllen). So you can only imagine how much fun I was having packed into a car with our dog. Luckily we left at 5am so it wasn’t in the heat of the day, but still equally miserable. The drive was going as good as it could go until about 45 minutes from our destination when we got a flat tire, that is right a flat tire. Of course we happened to get this flat tire on the stretch of the trip with nothing around, so here we are with a flat tired, a hot dog, and now a hot wife. So we unpacked the car and Loren began to attempt to fix the tire while I was convinced that this is where we were going to die. We broke down on the side of a four lane highway so the cars where going pretty fast with some of them not changing lanes, which really ticked me off.
Lily and I on the side of the road waiting on Loren as he changed the tire.
About 30 minutes into our tire changing experience a Brooks County Sheriff pulled over, and believe me I have never been so happy to see a sheriff in my life. In the wonderful state of Texas it is the law to have an empty lane of traffic between you and the officer, so with him behind us the people who weren’t pulling over now had to, thank goodness. If you ever end up on the side of the road like that you should definitely call the non emergency line so they can have some sort of law enforcement agent come to assist you, if definitely put me at ease knowing if something happened at least there was someone else there with us. Soon after that we were back on the road and got to McAllen safely.
When we got to Loren’s parents they had an awesome lunch ready to go for us with even better desserts. After we ate, rehydrated, and showered we headed over to Loren’s grandma’s house to watch the fireworks. The fireworks are shot from the high school which is about two blocks from his grandma’s so it was the perfect place to set up. We cut up our watermelon and enjoyed the awesome fireworks.
Loren and I
Jacyln (Loren’s sister) and I
Funny Dad photo bomb
Photo with Grandma
Mom and her girls
We are so blessed to have such an amazing family and friends and it is always an adventure coming down here. We will be leaving tomorrow to meet my parents for the second part of our vacation, which you can be sure I will be posting about once we get back into Houston.
Love always,
Amie
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