CAR TROUBLE

(Sunday July 20, 2008)
We packed the car and prepared for the three hour trip to the Family Reunion at Bear Lake. We stopped in Idaho Falls for about an hour to help Grandma Lewis and then around 2:00 headed out. We made it about an hour when the car started acting up and died- on the highway two miles outside of Pocatello. We thought it might have been over heated so we waited about 30 minutes (with no AC on the side of the highway- ahhh) and then tried again. We made it about 20 yards and then the car died again. It was at this time we discovered that our fuel pump was out and the car was broken.

So…we continued the slow 20 yards every 30 minute pace to Pocatello where we parked the car at a dealership to be looked at and fixed the following day. Then we waited for three hours (in the parking lot) for Brea’s cousin to come (on his way from Rigby) to pick us up and take us with them to the Family Reunion.

It was a long day. We left the house at 1:00 and didn’t arrive at our destination until around 9:30 (in which time we could have traveled all the way home to CO) - but we learned a lot about patients and enjoyed being together.


**We left the car there and the fuel pump was replaced (urgg) and we got to get it back on Wednesday. Since then, its been running great!!**