Monday, November 3, 2008

Auto oops

So this blog was supposed to be full of beautiful photos of our 4 wheeling outing at the San Rafel Swell, but instead, you get these!
We got up and met our party Saturday morning at 5:15 am, excited for a day of great rides down south. After about 2 hours driving, our trailer tire totally had a blow out and shredded. We got out to change the tire and put on the spare, and the lug wrench wasn't in the Yukon. That's okay, there are 6 vehicles behind us, that could help....except they all took a different route and didn't tell us! No big deal, we drove back to Nephi, bought a lug wrench, and headed back to where we had dumped the trailer. Put the spare on, and it was flat, not a big deal, we had a fix a flat. Screwed the fix a flat on the tire, and the stuff blew out all over the road (and all over Dean) instead of going in the tire. So we load up the shredded tire, leave the trailer again, and head back to Nephi. We buy a new tire, drive back to the trailer, (each of these trips to Nephi and back to the trailer takes about an hour!) change the spare with the new tire we just bought, and head back to Nephi to replace the other tire so they match. So after 7 1/2 hours we decide to just head back to Salt Lake and give up on our 4 wheeling trip. The report we got from our friends was that it was an awesome ride. We did the same amount of riding, ours was just in the Yukon instead of on a 4 wheeler. This was on Saturday.
Then on Sunday.... Braden comes up for Sunday dinner. He got back to Provo, and after dropping his cousin Kassidy off (we've talked her into coming up for dinner on Sundays too) he got rear ended by a 16 year old girl...."how annoying"! (according to Braden) He is fine, and I think he is even over being annoyed. That was our fun weekend, hope yours was better!



6 comments:

Jessica said...

Oh dear, maybe you should just stay home this weekend! :)

Erika Ellis said...

That's not a bad idea, except we are going to St. George to run in a half marathon. I'm sure that will be more painful than the car troubles from this last weekend!

mammasweet said...

It was more fun to stay home and play with Kate, Amelia and then to go to a Halloween party, roadshow rehearsal and movie. Sunday usually saves us all, doesn't it?

mommaquincy said...

Remember that we'll be at the Snow Canyon Rec Center this week-end,too. Richard would love to help with your cars. What time did you say your race starts?

Summer Wilson said...

What awfull luck! Good luck with the half marathon. You guys are running fools.

Erika Ellis said...

Our race starts at 9 am. Chris, do you have dean's cell number? It would be fun to get together down there.