This year for Christmas we spent the Eve with mom and did our family tradition (which is to get chinese food) and then after we tucked her in bed we headed up to my Grandparents house.
First of all can I just say that I love spending time out in the country where my grandparents live! I feel no stress, open land, not many people to bother you, it is just peaceful! We arrived there, went to bed and woke up the next morning (Christmas Morning!). Grandpa made his famous omelettes, we talked, ate breakfast and finally it was time to open presents! We opened them and I absolutely loved them (my grandma defintely knows what to buy for me, with me, you get clothes and books you are good to go)! We were able to spend time with the family before we had to head to Salt Lake City to the Airport to pick up Holly's best friend, Violet. We had a delicious family lunch with (almost) everybody, and we packed up and started heading home to drop off our luggage and gifts. Long story short, Holly got the hiccups so we stopped at 7 eleven for water. We got back on the road, and we were just coming up on the intersection at Skyline and I-89 when this car turned left in front of us and cut us off. Holly was driving, and there was nothing she could do except slam on the brakes and try to miss them. She did really well, we didn't T-bone them, but we still clipped their back bumper. We stayed in the lane for a second to catch our breaths and realized we we ended up in the middle of the turn lane!!! We knew we had to get out of there fast, so we slowly pulled the car to the shoulder of the road and you could hear that the tire wasn't quite right, plastic was dragging on the pavement.
Holly put the car in park and we made sure none of us were hurt. Holly and I got out of the car to look at the damage and then dad tried getting out of the car and couldn't. Some of the metal from the fender had crunched into the passenger side door, preventing it from opening. That is when I started freaking out. A few not-so-nice words may or may not have slipped my lips...
Finally after a couple of minutes the couple from the other car came over to see how we were all doing. They seemed quite nice and very sorry for what had happened. Still didn't make me feel better since this had ruined our whole day's plans (and that is usually when I have my "meltdowns") and we were now without a car. When the police arrived, they came over and assessed the damage, and we told them our car wasn't driveable and that we needed to call someone for a ride home. Dad was finally able to get in touch with a family friend and he came and picked us up and took us home.
Am I mad that our car was wrecked? Of course!!! Am I mad that our Christmas schedule was runied? yep. Am I glad that both parties from this accident were fine and that no one had any injuries? Absolutely.
In someways it's a bummer, in other ways it was our Christmas Miracle.
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