Adventure Driving on Our Way Home

We left Grandma's house on the 26th to drive back home and it turned out to be quite an adventurous ride.  We drove through snow, sleet, and rain the whole way.  A trip that normally takes less than 5 hours took us almost 10 hours!!  The ironic part is that we never came to a standstill on the road - we just went REALLY slow the whole way.  It turned out to be the best strategy though because we made it all the way home without any incident.

Unfortunately, many other drivers didn't share our strategy and therefore didn't share in our success.

These were just a few of the cars we saw that slid off the road.  We lost count but estimate that it was at least 30.  The white tractor trailer in the top, right corner passed us going to fast and then tried to get back in the right lane.  We watched him start sliding and then jack-knife across the road before coming to rest in the ditch.  At that point we wished we had not attempted to drive but we didn't want to cross North Mountain going west so we decided to just keep going slowly unless it got any worse.

Thankfully we had let Will open one of his presents from us before we left for Grandma's house so he had Magic School Bus DVDs to entertain him the whole way!  He never complained until we turned into our neighborhood and at that point he decided he'd had enough!  : )

We are thankful to God for our safe journey home.  We were tired but safe, and by the next day we were glad we made the trip and were able to have our Christmas morning together.