A Little Adventure

On Saturday, Derek, Elise and I took our babies to Kenora to get their pictures taken at Wal-Mart. Derek had decided to go with us because some friends of his from Winnipeg were going to be there that day. The trip down went fine and our first stop was at Debby’s for lunch. Josiah had just been sleeping for 20 – 30 minutes, so I left the van running and let him sleep for awhile. Lunch was nice and it was great to see Debby again.

We headed for Kenora and right away could tell that the van wasn’t running right. It was running really rough and had no power. Help!! I was hoping that letting it idle for half an hour wasn’t the problem! So, Derek dropped us off at Wally World and took the van to Bayview Toyota. Unfortunately the mechanics had just left for the day. Some guy there told him it sounded like bad gas - uh, gasoline - and to put gas-line antifreeze in it.

Meanwhile, Elise and I were trying to get Josiah to cooperate. When the photographer was lowering the different backgrounds to show me, he got scared of them. There was no way he was going to sit on that table and smile! He just cried and cried. It was kinda funny and frustrating both. Finally I held him and we took some shots of the two of us. I eventually got him to sit beside me, then Elise used a stuffed animal to play catch with him. We finally got some good shots of him, but every now and then he’d look behind him to see if those backgrounds were going to move and make noise again. That was pretty funny! Scotty behaved much better for his pictures! :-)

When we left Wal-Mart, the van was still not good, so Derek called Ned (Keith’s mechanic-Dad). He said it didn’t sound good and he and Keith tried to find a mechanic who could look at it (while Elise and I did more shopping). They couldn't find anyone, so they told us we had to spend the night and Ned would come get us in the morning. Well!! I was so glad that I had put my glasses and contact case in my bag that morning! We ate supper at KFC and then went back to Wal-Mart where I bought a toothbrush and toothpaste. Debby kindly said we could crash at her house. It was fun to be able to spend more time with her, anyway! The silver lining in the cloud!

Josiah was a mess since he didn’t have a play-pen to sleep in. He kept waking up and then he’d just get up and walk away instead of going back to sleep. So I’d have to put him to sleep which took forever. The last time, I laid on the couch and finally got him to sleep on me. So, it was a short night! Well, long night, but short on sleep!

Ned showed up at 7:45, and he had sparkplugs with him! He changed the sparkplugs and the van ran like a top! (It wasn't my fault for letting it idle!) So, we headed for home and made it here by 12:30. Needless to say, I had a nice nap that afternoon and slept in Monday morning! It’s a good thing the boys cooperated for their pics, or the whole trip would’ve been a bust! Well, we did do a bunch of shopping so that was good. It's always so much fun to buy diapers, you know! :-) It was a fun adventure though, and Elise and I were so thankful that Derek was there! And I’m so thankful it was only sparkplugs!!!