Heading home

Yeah, Dad flew home because he had to work on Monday but I drove because I still had a few more days off. We decided to stop by Taki and Connie's new place in Denver on the way back. We drove 70 to Denver and found it to be a beautiful drive. I really enjoyed it until we began our descent into Denver and I had a hard time keeping the car from racing. I found out later that I should have been using the engine to break by shifting into a lower gear. I always wondered why they had those gears in automatics! Now I know. Well, we almost met the grim reaper but not quite and we did have a fun time with Taki and Connie. Their apartment is really nice and they have a new flat screened TV, a nice king size bed, and a giant sectional couch and an ottoman that is the size of a kitchen table. It was all beautiful and you can see us relaxing on it. The next day we went to Sacrament meeting in their new ward that is close by and then took off for our next adventure. Gen had heard that there was a giant Monet sunflower picture on the border of Kansas and wanted to see it. It was about 2 hours out of our way but we went anyway just to make her happy. Well, first of all, she didn't have correct directions but Net just happened to see it. Kansas proved to be a very windy state and our undercarriage was blowing onto the tire and making a scraping sound. Finally, Annette and I climbed under the car with duct tape and passed it back and forth through the wheel well until I had anchored it. If you want to have an exercise in frustration, try passing a piece of sticky duct tape through a hole from one person to another about 18 inches apart. We ended up laughing so hard that the tape shook and was even harder to grasp. This momentary mirth probably kept both of us from strangling Gen - who knew she was in trouble as soon as she saw the picture-and had made a few bad attempts at trying to justify her poorly researched decision. The state police stopped and the guy said "I saw dresses and legs" coming out from under your car and thought maybe I should stop and help. In no time we were back on the road and the problem was taken care of. We decided that duct tape should be an essential part of everyone's 72 hour kit.