The anticipated relaxed morning of cleaning went awry yesterday when we found the pipes to the ground floor toilet frozen solid for the second day in a row. Wil spent his hangover in the basement, cutting & soldering & cursing a blue streak. Plumbing is no fun. Plumbing with a deadline (i.e., kids waiting at school to be picked up) is a nightmare. The intermittent water supply made cleaning the house with Cressida & Jenny a real treat. Throw in a few panicked trips to the hardware store for bits and you get a great recipe for stress.
The border guard made no mention of H1N1 vaccines — despite all of Alice's prompting from the back seat. The roads were perfect & dry so we made it pretty close to the Big Apple for supper, then put the bed down in the back for Wil (who very bravely made it through a lousy day with an even lousier hangover) & the girls. Henri rode shotgun and learned how to read maps for me 'til he couldn't keep his eyes open any longer and wrestled himself a corner in the bed. We made it through New Jersey & Pennsylvania before midnight and then the snow started falling. And boy, did it fall. We pulled into a rest area in West Virginia at 1:30 and there were four inches on the ground. We set up all the beds, pulled the curtains and snoozed. We awoke to a winter wonderland. Made a valiant attempt to keep up the pace this morning but the roads are a disaster. The state of Virginia is not rich in snowplows. The ditches were littered with eighteen-wheelers and SUVs, at least one every quarter mile, and the drivers left on the road were paralyzed with fear. 15 miles an hour is not the average we're looking for.
I'm sitting barefoot, poolside at the Holiday Inn in Harrisonburg, watching the kids get a private swimming lesson from Matteo, a handsome young Columbian who graduated from college yesterday.
It looks like the storm is heading north so we'll hit the road again early tomorrow and see how far we can get.
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Thank God all's good. Heard about the storm this morning and having had the pleasure of driving through Virginia in a snowstorm a few years ago, I was worried. They do not know how to deal with snow!! Besos
yikes. i like the sitting poolside though!!
Now the adventure has truly begun!
Not even a blink of an eye and the stories are beginning! Please tell Henry that I admire his navigation abilities and give those little girlz lots of hugs and sqeezes from all of us!!
We will be thinking about you every day!! Safe travels.
Love Jackie, Mia, Kai, and Declan
xxxxoooo
So glad to hear you're safe - was concerned in seeing newsclips of the storm. Drove 10 hours through a horrendous one from TO- home a couple of years ago - frightening! By a pool seems perfect tonic to get kinks out. Keep on keeping on! So exciting in far too many ways. Love
Glad you pulled over. Love the updates. Soon it will all be a distant memory.
I am glad you are safe. I was concerned when I saw what weather was coming your way! We encountered the same thing and ended up being given a meal and a bed on the floor of a church basement. I look forward to hearing the next installment of your adventure.
Driving to Texas could have been pretty boring, so from my point of view the trip is off to a great start !! Plumbing, hangovers, snowstorms, swimming lessons from Columbians, this is not a 1 week holiday at Club Med baby ! OK maybe you could have gotten the swimming lesson there ...
As long as you guys are OK and make it to that lonely fishing village for Xmas all is good.
Big hugs all around!
We are living vicariously thru you...keep up the blogging. Miss you and love you all tons.
Thx for the cookies Sarah , Abercorn is great . please come .
pk & Marie .xxxx
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