It snowed this morning. We were planning on going to the Museum again so Mike could check it all out. We almost cancelled, but when I saw the salt truck heading up our road, I took that to mean that things were fine. And they were. Around here.
The museum is almost 30 miles south, however and the roads were not clear there. The highway was traveling slower and slower the farther south we headed, but nothing terrible. Lots of cars off the road. Several flipped SUVs, but people walking around talking frantically on their cells with their hands on their forehead in disbelief. Just the typical first snowfall of the year stuff.
We finally got off our exit and it was a whopping 1/10 of a mile to the right into the parking lot of the museum. As Mike tapped the brakes to stop at the light where we would take that right, the inevitable happened. We didn't stop. Well that's not true, we did stop when we hit the car in front of us. Ugghh!!!
We thought initially that we might get away with no police report and just let the insurance company deal with it, but no such luck. The truck we hit belonged to the museum and the guy driving it was on the clock. It was snowing though, and around here that means if there's an fender bender accident you go to the police station, they don't come to you (they've got flipped suvs on the highways to deal with). So tomorrow Mike has to go back down there and file a police report, but it's right on the edge of the projects and the station itself isn't quite as right off the highway as the museum. Glad I don't have to go, but poor Mike. He feels terrible and the pain in the ass factor to have the van fixed will be high. And our deductible is $1000 so it's going to pinch being so close to Christmas.
As I've told Mike a thousand times today though, if it had to happen - that really was a best case scenario. Rachel freaked out after the initial crunch and I couldn't take her out of her car seat for fear that some other unlucky person would slide into us from behind. So I couldn't really comfort her other than to get into the back and hold her hands and tell her it was alright, but she did calm down after a few moments. Spencer was fine, completely non-phased. I was much calmer than I thought I would be, as this was my first accident since before I even started driving. Mike was okay, though he was pretty stressed before the accident even started. He did calm though and we still had a good time at the museum itself, though poor Mike had to join and leave us a couple of times to try to get things settled.
Other than that it was a pretty uneventful day. I nodded off while Spencer sat on my lap watching tv and Rachel was still napping. Exciting, huh?
Oh and I read the book Twilight. I started it last night at 9, went to sleep before 2, then read a bit this morning while the kids played, and finally made Spencer take quiet time while Rachel napped so I could finish it. It was really good. The characters were a little shallow, but they were all teenagers, so it's kinda fitting. I think everyone's brain stops working for those few years while their hormones are in overdrive and that was very much the case in this book. I'm eager for the second one, there is a ridiculous amount of foreshadowing and I'm uber, uber, uber curious if my suspicions are correct about some of the characters. Sometimes two dimensional is just a way to keep a character around and foreshadow their connection to the over arching story. And sometimes it's just an underdeveloped character lol. I often read too much into things (pun completely intended). I still have questions about a few lines of foreshadowing in Harry Potter that never came to fruition later lol.