AND .... we have a guest blogger! This is India, sharing today (Friday the 7th) from her point of view. :) Enjoy .... maybe. hehe
Today dawned bright and clear. We all went rollerblading (well, Mom ran - and Dad stayed behind to work) in the morning on Riverfront Parkway - it was beautiful! It was a good thing we went when we did - because it started to get really hot after we were done.
Blah, blah, blah ... day goes normally by. Watermelon for lunch, laundry, swimming, ping pong, cool little Mexican place for supper .... THEN, it happens - (cue dramatic, scary, movie music) we drive out across the parking lot of the little Mexican restaurant, and - the suburban dies. Wonderful, right?! So, we sit there for a couple minutes - everyone thinking ''hum, what do we do now?'' Just then, driving by on the street, someone spies a jeep with a HUGE toolbox on the back, and a sticker on the side reading: ''Jake's Mobile Auto'' with a phone number. Dad whistles to him (he had his windows down), waves - and over drives Jake. Jake is a big burly guy - with lots of tattoos. A few of us were a little not-so-sure about this Jake fellow. He looks around under the hood, starts the car (or tries), dinks around for a little bit .... ''yep, it's the fuel pump''. Super! Fantastic! The part alone is around $350. *gulps* At least the old one is still under warranty (Halleluyah!), so we will just have to pay for labor. Or so we thought.
ANYWAYS .... Dad starts talking to Jake, and finds out that Jake runs his own mechanical/bodywork/repair shop thingy, from the back of his jeep. Pretty cool, huh? So, of course Jake says he'll fix it for us, might take a day or so, but he's happy to do it. (mmm ... $$$) And so, the question arises, how on earth are we going to get back to the campground? We have a few options actually ... rent a car, call a taxi or walk over to the nearest car dealership to just buy a pickup and be done with it already!!! Jake has another option. Turns out, he has this old cop car that he bought from some guy that didn't want it anymore - and offers to give us (and all our stuff) a ride back to the campground! Dad agrees, so Jake leaves to go get the car and come back. While he is gone - Mom had called AAA for a tow truck, that way it could be towed to Jake's house so he could put the new fuel pump in it. Jake comes back, the tow guy comes, the suburban gets towed to his house ... THEN we all pile into Jake's snazzy cop car (which was really cool I might add) and he takes us to the campground! What a nice guy - he offers to come pick us up if we need to go anywhere tomorrow and says he'll call with how things are going in the morning. Oh, forgot something. When we were riding with Jake in the cop car, he turned the music up really loud. It was ... interesting to say the least. Some crazy, electric, rock something or other - that kind of made my head spin! I find out later - Dad and Mom both knew what song that was, who the artist was, and what the lyrics were!!!!! That college life - man, I'm telling you - they learned some strange things back then.
Whew! That happened in the space of ... oh about a few hours. OMIGOODNESS - we don't have any water, Mom realizes. Now, mind you, our campground is a looonnnggg ways from the city, so it's not like it's a short walk to a grocery store or anything. How are we going to survive without water?!?!?! Well, turns out there is a little convenience store just ''down the road'' (riiiight - more like a long ways down the road) that Dad, Noah and I decide to walk to, so we can pick up some water. we trudge down there (I'm snapping photos on the way), and ... well let's just say we picked up a few more things then we came for. We got: watermelon (yes, a whole one to carry all the way back), two gallons of water, 6 avocados, ice cream (yes, they had soy!!!!), root beer - and then we got sunflowers and an Odwalla juice for Mom, since she was kinda stressed about the whole suburban thing.
HAHA we must have been quite the sight - walking down the frontage road, two kids and an adult carrying odd groceries, Dad with the watermelon on his shoulder, walking along the highway. But we didn't care. :) (Unfortunately, I couldn't take photos on the way back - I was carrying too much stuff)
Then - the day ended as nicely as it had begun. We had root beer floats, which none of us children had ever had before, by the way - Mom loved the flowers - and then we watched a movie that the campground was playing for free! What an a day! And now, I had better get some sleep - oh, but I have to study some first. Priorities you know.
Shalom!
India
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