January 26, 2012 - An Adventure

Breakfast. I 

I started the day off with some Lucky Charms.

Lunch
On my lunch break I went shopping to try to find something to wear to the funeral on Saturday. I didn't find what I wanted and decided to just go with what I had at home already. I ended up picking up some fruit "sushi" for lunch and a spring roll.

Dinner
After work I went home and attempted to eat some leftover pho. It was gross though. I opted to just eat a few crackers instead. Then Mike and I packed and were on our way to Houston.

This is when the adventure starts. The drive to Houston is about 3.5 hours (at least to the part we needed to end up in). We ended up leaving a lot later than we meant to. The roads were traffic free at least, until we hit Columbus. We suddenly got into dead stop traffic. We decided to just exit the freeway and grab some fast food to wait it out since neither of us really ate a nice dinner. Once we were done eating we got onto the freeway and there was no traffic. Mike and I were shocked. We looked to the side of the freeway and saw the vehicles that must have been the cause of the traffic because there were three all smashed up. Then all of a sudden we hear a bad noise, and know immediately that we got a flat tire. We pull over to the side of the freeway, Mike gets out and checks it and yes, it is completely slashed. The freeway area we were at was completely dark and only semi trucks were driving through it. We were afraid we would get hit if we attempted to change the tire. We ended up pulling off the freeway onto the feeder, into a ditch essentially at a crazy angle. 

Although this was safer, because we were not completely off the road, we could not attempt to change the tire. At this point it was about 1030 at night. I called AAA, because we needed something to light the area up so we wouldn't get hit. AAA ended up showing up 1.5 hours later after many phone calls. The guy was really nice, and asked where we were headed. When we said to our mom's funeral, he was very sympathetic.

Once we got the tire fixed, and got back on the road, I looked at how many miles it would take to get to our destination. It was 98 miles, and the donut was only supposed to go 100. We were exhausted at this point, and were wary of getting another flat tire. We decided to just get a hotel and get the tire changed in the morning. We both were talking about how all we wanted was a hot shower, and kept predicting other things that could possibly go wrong, because we just figured with all the things that had been going wrong for us, there must be more out there just waiting. I know a terrible way to look at it, but we were really just laughing about it.

Anyway so we get to Motel 6, because it is one of the only motels that accepts dogs. We go inside and they tell us there is no hot water in the hotel right now. And we ask if there is at least a discount for that, and they just say they can take $10 off. A $10 discount for no hot water? We decided to just leave. It was now about 130am.

We go to the La Quinta across the street. They have a room, but do not accept dogs. We ended up just sneaking our dogs in, by wrapping them up in blankets. It was really hilarious looking and obnoxious to be honest. But the dogs had to go somewhere right? We did end up getting our hot shower at least, despite the drama. The dogs ended up barking in the morning once the house keeper came by and blew our cover. While leaving we wrapped them up anyway, and on our way out the house keepers laughed at our obnoxious situation. It was pretty hilarious.