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Happy Thanksgiving

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We woke up around 4am this morning to get ready for the icy drive into Portland.  We met Mindy in Gresham to pick up Jacob and Lexi, and headed on to Pendleton.  Doug and I commented to each other several times on how good a time we were making.  We really wanted to be to the Mountain House by 1pm.  The way things were going we might have been able to arrive by 1130!  We stopped for fuel in Biggs and then it happened.  Someone knocked on the window to say we had a flat.  Oh man!  So for the next hour we tried to get the spare tire to lower.  Hmmm…. turns out we needed a special “key” to attach to the end of the long jack handle and then we could lower the spare.  Nope, don’t have one.  Luckily there was another F350 truck in the same year in the parking lot.  The owner was very generous and loaned us his key… YEA!  Nope, didn’t work.  So a quick phone call to Doug’s parents house, and some quick google tricks, and wala!….  There are more than 30 “keys” made for that year and model!  Are you kidding me!  Nope we are not.  Roughly one hour later and some very helpful guys we did manage to “blast” the cable holding the spare tire apart.  I say “blast” because that is what Nicolas called it.  They used a flame torch and just burned that metal cable apart.  It will be a spendy fix later but it did get our spare down.  And later that night while tucking Nic into bed we were told it was his favorite part of the day.  Not the yummy food, yummy deserts, or games with cousins… the blaster with a  huge flame coming out that the man started with a lighter!  Of course he really wants a lighter right now.

Anyway, we made it to Doug’s parents by 2:30pm.  We had a wonderful dinner and lot’s of fun with family.  Tomorrow we are off to find some new tires.

P.S. Don’t travel on holidays!  It’s ridiculously expensive when things go wrong!

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Mindy said on November 28th, 2010 at 8:20 am

You should have called me, my brother lives a half mile from Biggs. He would have LOVED to blast your cable. Nic reminds me of him sometimes!!

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