The kids and I all have a few days off for Easter, but Jeff still has to work. So, we decided to hit the road for Nashville with Aunt Jean. We were driving along all happy and merry for about 1.5 hours. Then I could feel myself run over something. That wasnt the bad part. The bad part was that as we drove I continued to hear a noise, something was stuck in the wheel. We pulled off at the first exit (at Fair Oaks, IN) and popped out of the car and watched the tire deflate to nothing. Had I continued to drive, we could have been iRemn grave danger. And, if there hadnt been an exit right there, we would have been broken down on the road with a flat.Now the issue is, the car comes with a dummy tire. Meaning we could not pop on a new tire and go. We needed to get this one fixed. And, by the looks of it, that wasnt going to be easy. The car was totally flat on the ground, packed with our stuff, and we had 3 kids with us. I got a number for assistance from the woman inside and had someone come out to change the tire. That took about an hour. He told me I needed a NEW tire, not a fix. We called every local tire store and NONE had the tire I needed in stock. We were told to drive to tire store in Rensselaer. Good news, it was only 15 miles away. Bad news? We could only drive 40mph on the dummy tire. It took FOREVER. We got to the tire store and they pretty quickly confirmed I needed a new tire, AND that they had one in stock. We went to McDonalds (right across the the street) and grabbed some lunch, by the time we were done the car was ready.
Overall it could have been worse. But it took us about 10 hours to get to Nashville in total because of this little hiccup.
We arrived and essentially RAN to Jason Aldeans's restaurant. It was close to the hotel, still open, and had a hot pretzel on the menu. So... we were all good.
The best news? They had actual COTTON CANDY for dessert.
Did I mention that it was lovely weather for basically our whole drive, but that when we got to Nashville we had to walk in the rain to get to dinner? What a day!
