Saturday, March 15, 2008
The start of my long fun vacation with my friends all by myself
I am so excited to be going on a trip to go and see 3 of my friends on the other side of the country I can hardly contain myself. But who knew that the very first day of freedon (almost freedom Ella is going to be in Utah and with help from many family members she will be staying in Utah until Nate gets here to pick her up) I would almost get into a very horrible car accident (we didnt actually get in the car accident but I can only imagine how horrible it could of been) It all started this week see my sister came on Tuesday to hang out with me for a bit in Idaho and then take me back to Utah with her. With my anniversary being on friday I asked if we could leave on Saturday morning. She agreed. We got up this morning at 4:30 so we could leave by 5 o'clock. (I needed to be in Springville for my hair apt. at 11:45 that morning so we had to leave while it was still very dark outside) It had rained/snowed almost the whole time we were on the road and for about an hour of the drive it was so foggy. But the roads werent bad and the sun was starting to come up. Anyway we are driving along on the freeway when I look off to the right and there was this car that had been in a car accident with this blockade on the side of the road and I thought what the heck happened there then about 50 feet down the raod there was a truck that was pulling a boat pulled off the side of the road. And we thought that it was odd to so Joy started slowing down. Then it happened. I am sure it only took a matter of seconds but it seemed like minutes to me. All of the sudden Joy started saying I cant stop I cant stop as we start sliding across the road. We look up ahead of us and there is a diesel truck that had slid off the road into the median. And we start heading right toward it the car is starting to spin. Joy thought that she was going to crash into it on her side. we passed it by the skin of our teeth. At this point we are headed back to the right side of the road. I look up and notice that we are about 300 feet away from a pair of diesels that have crashed into each other that are in the median. Then things take a change we are spinning around in circles not only that we are weaving back and forth across the road. I look up and we are facing the wrong way and a car is heading right towards us. Joy says to me I am so sorry. And I said to her its okay its not your fault. Luckily the car heading towards us barely missed us and we spin facing front agian for about the 4th time. At this point my every muscle in my body is bracing for impact and I am waiting to hear the crunching of the metal and the jarring of being hit. I am imagining to myself us stuck under the diesel truck. And in my mind I thought to myself Please Heavenly Father Please Heavenly Father. Then we came to a sudden stop. It was wierd. We were going so fast and stopped so abruptly. When we stopped one of the guys that was in one of the diesel trucks signals for to stay where we are as yet another car go skidding past us out of control. I immediatly said thank you Heavenly Father. Joys first reaction was to drop the F bomb and Ella who is oblivios to the whole thing looks up from Spiderman and says did we just go slidding everywhere? We saw no less the 25 car accidents from the start of our little fiasco to Ogden about an hour away. It was crazy. We were blessed.
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4 comments:
I am so glad that you guys are safe! I hope you enjoy your long vacation.
Holy Crap woman!! I'm glad you're safe!
Wow that was scary! I was on the edge of my seat with my stomach in knots while I was reading it. I'm glad you were ok. I love that Ella was completely aloof to it all!
Scary! I am terrified to drive on icy highways because when I was younger, we slid like you did. But, we hit the guard rail (not going too fast). Thankfully you made it out ok! Enjoy your road trip!! Sounds like a huge amount of fun.
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