What an adventure!!!!

Sorry it has been so long for a post on my blog, but a lot has happened since I last posted. To save time, I will give you a short version of my adventure. First, Tressa and I went to visit Ken's parents in Cincinnati over Conference weekend. While we were visiting, we decided to spend the weekend in Charlotte, NC to visit Ken's brother, Phil, and his family. We had a great time. Tressa was an angel in the car. She was such a trooper. Tressa had a great time with her cousins, Matt and Sadie. Tressa and I came home for about 2 days, then we were off again to visit Bryan and Kirsten in D.C. for Ken's vacation week. We had a great time with Bryan and his family. Since we had been to D.C. several times before and had seen most the sites we decided to just hang out, take it easy. We will really miss them with them in Brazil. I hope that they have a great time there. Good luck Bryan!!!

On our way back from D.C., we spent a couple of days with Ken's family. Thinking that our traveling days were over, Tressa and I decided to go visit Ken's family again for Halloween (since Ken was on call that night). We had a great trip until the very end.

The night before Halloween, Colleen had a Halloween piano recital for her students. She has them dress up in their costumes and perform Halloween songs. We had a great time. Tressa dressed up as Tinkerbell. She looked really cute for the recital.

On Halloween night, Tressa and I went Trick-or-Treating with Carl and Tiona. Tressa sure had a great time; however, I think I was the one having the best time. There in Cincinnati, they had trick-or-treating hours from 6-8 and everyone in the neighborhood were sitting out on their porch or in the driveway. We did not have to knock on any doors which helped out the success of our candy. We were out the whole 2 hours. Tressa got a pumpkin full of candy. She was a cute little bumblebee, courtesy of Bonnie (Ken's sister-in-law). Afterwards, we watched close to six hours of Ghost Hunters. They were investigating the Waverly Sanatorium in Louisville, KY live. I had to watch it, since I had been a resident of Louisville and had heard stories from what happens in the Sanatorium.

Tressa and I were supposed to come home the Friday after Halloween. After talking to Ken, he informed me that he had to work Saturday morning. So I decided to leave Saturday morning and be home about the same time he did. I have saved you the best story for last. Here goes:

The night before we were to leave for home, I was on my way to Carl and Tiona's apartment with Tressa and Colleen in the back and Tiona and I in the front. We were one light away from the freeway entrance, I was slowing down for the red light, when all of the sudden I was hit from behind. I looked in my rear view mirror and my trunk had flown open. With all the commotion, I looked to my left and the driver that hit me took off into oncoming traffic and through the light that had turned green. Yes, it was a hit and run. What made me really mad is that I had my 16 month old daughter in the car. He didn't have the decency to see if we were okay. We pulled off into a gas station, while that was occurring, a cop had heard the car crash and started chasing after the car that had hit me. He was unable to catch him and decided to turn around to see how we were holding up. Everyone in the car ended up with soar necks, backs and had headaches. Tressa was fine until she saw her mommy upset.

The best part of the story was:

1. the man left his front bumper on the road with his license plate
2. he had left an imprint in my back bumper of his license plate number
3. they found the car 8 miles north of the car accident, totaled
4. they were able to contact the owner and the car is insured, now he can pay for my car to get fixed
5. the owner loaned the car to his brother that 1) did not have a drivers license and 2) has a criminal record
6. the brother claims that he was held at gunpoint in KY and the car was stolen

The cop called me and told me do to some chains of events that happened that night my accident report will take a little longer. The Monday after the car accident, I went and got my car estimated. It will cost $4200 to fix my car, but it will take 2 weeks. I was able to get a rental until the 23rd of Nov. We are going to go back Thanksgiving weekend to pick it up. For now, we are cruising around in a 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser, light blue. Our trip lasted 1 week longer than planned. We are all doing fine. We just can't wait to get this incident past us.

Here are some pictures of Tressa in her costume. I hope that everyone had a safe Halloween.