An Unexpected Weekend

Our weekend did not turn out like I expected it to.  We have been planning for ages (we're talking months here), to go up and visit some family in Philly for the long holiday weekend.  When we finally got it worked out, we were going to head up for just Sunday and Monday but we were getting out of town, that was enough for me. 

The highlight of the weekend was heading to a Firebirds meeting.  It was one of the best I've attended and came away excited to do glass.  Here's one of the beads I made there.  We even all made it out to a movie together.  Amy did ok, it's a work in progress. 

Anyway, as we were driving to church, the brake light came on in the car and was flashing that we were low on brake fluid.  Now, I would have simply filled up the fluid but this same thing happened not 2 weeks ago.  It's funny, I've been watching White Collar on netflix lately and the guy has the same error flash on his dash board, he loses his brakes and gets into a car accident.  Total tangent but I thought it was oh so pertinent to my life.  I did not want that to happen to us. 

So, we cancelled our trip so that we could have our brakes looked at.  The last thing we need right now would be for us to lose our brakes while we're driving the three hours and to get into an accident.  It still wasn't what I'd hoped to do this weekend.  Who really would trade a weekend away for a $600 mechanics bill?  Oh boy. 

We tried to make the weekend fun still, even without a car that would fit us all.  We hung up some pictures, we watched movies together, made jiffy pop.  On Monday night, snow started to fall in Virginia and we accumulated about 6 inches.  Which in NOVA is way more than enough to shut everything down.  I heard the stores were jammed and all of the toilet paper, milk, eggs and bread were gone.  Why you would wait to buy toilet paper until a disaster is set to strike is beyond me. Even the base that Heber works at was shut down so he got to spend the day with us playing in the snow. 

 

 

 

 

All in all, a pleasant weekend, just not what I expected.  I'm happy the brakes are fixed but it made me antsy to get out and go away for a weekend.  Luckily, I won't have to wait long, I've bought tickets to go to Chicago (just me!) in March.  I am so excited!