Travels

So to add to our adventures that we have had... well there is a lot, but most recent one was our trip down to Utah before going home for spring break. I was put in charge of finding a ride for us so we wouldn’t have to pay $50 to ride the shuttle. I found a ride that worked with both of our schedules leaving Rexburg at 230 therefore we should get to salt lake around 630, right? Okay, that’s what we wished anyways.  We are  figured we knew each other so we will just sit in the back and talk and the girls in the front can become friends like whatev. So anyways, we are driving and we both are starting to get car sick. We stop to get gas and we take a bathroom break, just in time before I get too sick. We then get back on the road thinking we are almost there yay. Well the girls vehicle decided that it needed a break and wanted to be done so it just stopped. It would not accelerate anymore so we told the girl she needed to pull over now so she finally gets to the edge of the road and we sit there for a few minutes before taking a look at the engine. We get out and pop the hood [remember this is 4 college girls (we know nothing about cars!)] and as we stand on the side of the interstate in Utah we look at the engine and say okay well something is wrong but I can’t tell ya what. We stand there a little longer and finally decide it’s not the oil or power steering and that’s all we could figure out. Kaylee calls her dad to try to figure out what to do and I realized it was leaking something, but guess what we still couldn’t tell ya what it was leaking. After a few phone calls to people we figure out it is leaking transmission fluid and that now we will be on the side of the road for a while cause that car has had it. At this point it is 530 so I text my aunt and tell her it will be some time before I get there because of car difficulties.

Liz's feelings on being stuck on the side of the road

 My aunt was just oh so thrilled to hear that. Now that we were sitting on the side of the road with these two girls that we didn’t know we figured it was probably time to get to know them somewhat because lets face it, what else were we going to do? I joked that this was the only I was going to be able to make friends because I never have time up at school to get out or do anything. We didn’t have too much of a view, although we had a nice mountain on one side and on the other side up ahead of us a little we could see cows chasing each other. 

 And we also heard and felt each car pass us it was glorious… Kaylees parents who were from Lehi were going to come rescue us and bring a dolly to tow the vehicle to salt lake for the girl. So at this point all we could do was wait. We started talking for a while and we also got to watch the sunset. That was pretty. 

 Kaylee also had her computer and showed us all about her trip to china and the kids she taught while she was there. Being in Utah you would think someone would stop to help but the one and only person who stopped to see if we needed help was some sketch man who was high as a kite. After well… a few hours it was 8 and Kaylees parents finally showed up with the dolly. By this time we all needed to go to the bathroom and we were beginning to get cranky well because we hadn’t eaten for a while and we had been on the side of the road. Her dad told us in order to get this vehicle up on the dolly we are going to have to put everything we have into it… So first try it doesn’t get up all the way so we let it roll back down and go at it again, except this time we got it up… and also over. So we were thinking now that the dolly is here we will leave soon except now we have a trapped van and the vehicle is up and over the dolly. Aint nobody leaving now. Now her dad is brainstorming and trying to figure out how the heck to get the car unstuck. He goes to the front of the van to take a pee break and now since it was dark I randown the highway and in some kinda sorta bushes I took a pee break as well. He tried to yank the dolly from under the car, no go.. We tried using a jack except it wouldn’t get it high enough. They remember they knew a missionary from Brigham city who works at a tow company so we look up his information and call him to come. It takes him awhie to get there and when he finally does they trying using his jack to see if it will get it high enough, guess what it doesn’t. He was pretty good looking so it was nice eye candy as we sat there and waiting. He decides to call another tow truck (yeah don’t ask me what he was cause we thought he was a tow truck) apparently we need two though I guess. So the second tow truck gets there and decides first he needs to get himself stuck in the ditch so when he gets unstuck he almost hits the van but then he finally lifts up the car and we get it on the dolly the way it should be. So now that it is 1030 and we have been sitting there since 530 we get the car strapped down and we finish our trip. We stop at the most sketch rest stop to use the bathroom. But it did welcome us to Utah :)

Then we are off to get food since remember this was supposed to be just a 4 hour trip and we didn’t 

think we would need to pack a dinner so we were all starving. We get to an exit with food, but by this time it is 1102 as we pull into wendys they just closed there dining room and I guess it is against policy to let anyone in after 11 and then wouldn’t let us walk through drive thru so kaylee says well you lost our business and we walked away. We then go to arbys same deal and try mcdonalds and yet again no such luck, but then we ran back to arbys because a truck just finished drive thru and we told them there is no way we can get that van towing the car through the drive thru so they finally let us just order through the drive thru on our feet.

 That was something new. So we all ran back to look at the menu then ran back to the menu and her dad decided to make the girl work and give us like 2 of every sauce. So now that we have food we get back on the road we are driving and her dad begins 20 questions with each of us about our whole life story and parents and everything. We finally make it to salt lake at 1230. Except liz was supposed to pick up her grandmas car while her grandma was at the temple but since we thought we should sit on the side of the road for a few hours she had to tell her grandma when she was done at the temple that she needed to get her car and that we wouldn’t be there till later so finally at 1230 and she has to get her grandma to meet us. We get the girl to where she is going unload the car off the dolly. Oh and I forgot to mention that she left the keys in her car with the window down and her battery died and now her window is stuck down. We all joked and sat that now that we have spent all day together and gotten to know each other pretty well we need to get each others numbers and stay friends. Now that two of the girls are dropped off me and kaylee finish the trip by finally making it to lehi at 130. Just to remind you in case you forgot we left Rexburg at 230 and it should have only taken 4 hours not… well 11!

We know can start to laugh about it and whenever we pass that spot on the highway we just laugh. NEVER a dull moment when we travel together.