I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN . ....

Ever since we moved to Tennessee, I have been kind of freaked out by the fact that there so few street lights and so many ditches. I just knew I would end up in a ditch one day. Well, I have never gone into a ditch and lately I was just thinking, I don't know why I was so upset about them, I have actually done very well.

Tonight we decided to go out "Boo'ing". The missionaries came over for dinner and when they left, Michael, Erin, Lindsey, Jenna, Andrew and Madison (Erin's friend) went out on a mission to Boo 3 families. They all live fairly far away from each other and all of their roads are very dark. The first one went fine and we got to the second, the job was done and all was well. As we raced away and got to the end of their street, I went to turn around in someone's driveway and thought when I backed out that I was further than I actually was. When I went to go turn the wheel to turn back on the road, I went down their driveway ditch. Everyone here has them and I never saw it coming. It made a loud thud as we went down and then I didn't know what to do. I knew I couldn't get back up but wondered if I should complete the drop and go all the way down because once down, I could drive back up -- not on the driveway but on the grass (hard to explain) but when I tried to go further, there was that awful under the car scraping noise that no one wants to hear, so what could I do other than call the person whose house we had just boo'd and ask if he could come tow us out! Of course then the surprise was ruined, hey, we just boo'd you, can you come get us out of the ditch! But he did come with his truck (only after calling Jonathan who told him to give us a super hard time!) and thought he couldn't get us out, but after thinking for a moment, he ran home, got some wood and made kind of an impromptu ramp that worked like a charm. When we were towed back up, the fender fell off the car and the kids started screaming, "our van's falling apart!!!" in this kind of terror, but it popped back on and I don't know if there is damage, but we drove home okay. All I could think of was the conference talk about laughing at yourself and so we laughed and laughed and since we decided not to go venture onto yet another dark country road tonight (for our 3rd house), we ate all of that family's treats on the way home!