August 3, 2010 –
If you hadn’t caught the meaning from the title, our plans for today did not go exactly as we had anticipated, but it still was a good day.
We had planned to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma Deb this morning and then take off to Seattle sometime after lunch. The kids really wanted to go hiking with Grandpa so this morning we all began a Vann Trapp family stroll through the mountains and forest that border Dad’s house on one side. We had a good time, but in the meantime, the seeds of our travel disruption were being planted.
Deb had stayed at the house to wait for a large load of flooring that they bought to put into their rental properties. The delivery guy came in a huge truck, and he tried to back down the long dirt road leading to their house. A couple of the tires went off the side of the dirt road into a small creek, and the whole truck was stuck. The driver unhitched the cab from the trailer, and they tried to put cinder blocks under the wheels to gain some traction, but it wouldn’t move. A neighbor came over with a small tractor, but he couldn’t pull it out either. Finally, they had to call a big tow truck and got it pulled out with a winch. Then they re-attached the trailer, finished backing the truck down the dirt road and unloaded the flooring.
Of course, as the road was blocked off, there was no way for us to leave until the delivery was complete. By the time everything was done, we couldn’t have been on the road until about 4:00, and we wouldn’t have arrived in Seattle until after 10:00. The kids have been having a great time so we decided to stay another night and leave early in the morning. Grandpa gave all the kids big boots to wear and then took them on another hike through the wetlands area that borders his house on the other side. Then they helped Grandma Deb bake cookies. So they day didn’t turn out like we planned, but it was nice spending more time with Dad and Deb.
I also did have time to add the video to Weird Al’s Charles Nelson Reilly song to all of the iPods and get this entry done earlier than usual today.
Barring another diesel truck blocking the road again, we should be heading out to Seattle tomorrow morning.
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