The Trip From Hell

Fri 6:30 am: we meet the car rental guy up at Enterprise as early as he would meet us. ( They don't open until 7:30 and he volunteered to meet us early so we could get going on our trip as early as possible) We are filling out paperwork, he asks Jerry for his license, Jerry hands it to him and the guys says "um sir, did you know this is expired?" Um WTF we had no idea it was expired! So needless to say our day doesn't start off on a good note. The guy gives us the car but we have to drop back by w/ a valid license before we leave. We go home, get the kids ready for school, drop them off and then head to the DMV.

Bitch at DMV tells us that since its been expired for more than 30 days and is out of state that he has to go take a drivers test. (And she really was a hateful bitch!) So we decide to head out to our kids fieldtrip before we go to the police station. (It was the kids first field trip and we weren't going to miss it) We leave early and head to the police station. We get there and are informed that they won't start testing until 1pm. I then resort to begging the officer to PLEASE just let him take the test. Jerry had already handed him his military id along w/ his expired license and because he was military the officer let him go ahead and take his test. He passed by only one question. I threatened to divorce him if he failed lol. Back to the DMV, Spencer poops, I forgot the diapers and wipes so I ran and bought some. Get back Jerry still isn't done. We wait and wait. Finally we get out of there, run home finish packing and go tet the kids from school.

We get them and get on our way. Stop at taco bell and order food. They screw up our order...totally on par w/ the day. Finally on the road and Spencer. Won't. Stop. Crying. The kdis are being brats. Screaming. Yelling. Hitting. I lost my mind about an hour and 45 minutes into the trip. Spencer did not stop crying the entire 10 trip. He gave us breaks every once in awhile but they were few and far between.

It was so bad that two xanax didn't even take the edge off. I was needin a drink or 10 so the last time we stopped for gas I bought beer. I was terrified that when we got to where we were going it would be a dry county or something and I was NOT pressing my luck after the day I had.

We FINALLY get close and Jerry's family decides to give us "easier" directions. Of course we got lost and I was ready to take Jerry's head off. We FINALLY get to the hotel and get to the room at 1am. I started throwing back the beer. I NEEDED it.

Next day was the wedding. It was beautiful. I will add pictures and talk about that tomorrow.

Now back to the trip from hell. So we finally got there, slept, woke up, went to a wedding and a reception, came back to the hotel, went to brides parents house to visit, came back to hotel, met up w/ all family staying there and stayed up til 12am., (much alcohol was consumed), go back to room, go to sleep and then wake up LATE the next morning for breakfast w/ his family. I normally hate to be late but I just let it go this morning. We go back to the hotel and load the car for our trip home.

Fingers are crossed that the trip home isn't half as bad as the trip there. It's not. THANK. GOD. We stop in memphis for some BBQ but can't find a real BBQ place. Still we had a BBQ sandwich and the most AMAZING cole slaw ever! Got to walk around and stretch our legs a bit. Get back on the road and are almost to Little Rock (which by the time we get to LR we consider ourselves HOME even though we are almost 3 hours away still) and get stuck in traffic. FOR. ALMOST. THREE. HOURS. Seriously. People were out walking around on the interstate...us included. In fact we were some of the first people out of our cars. I just couldn't stand sitting there on the interstate so we got out and stretched our legs. As we are standing on the shoulder talking to another stranded family the traffic starts moving. We dash back to our car and quickly strapped our kids into their seats. After one more quick gas stop we arrived home around midnight. So thinks to our stop in memphis and our traffic delay our 10 trip took us 14 hours. No. Fun. But at least Spencer wasn't crying the entire time.

I have pictures and stories to tell..this was mainly just the basics of the trip...