Michelle Laffan decided after our joyous Friday that she didn't see the need for us to separate that quickly. I agreed. Plus she was so near her due date a bumpy drive over the mountain to Lake County might send her into labor and then I would be there for the birth and the baby. We loved the idea. Her husband Dan had the day off so Dan and Michelle and the boys came with us.
When we got to Grama Bettys, Uncle Don looks at the bent axle, bypassed suspension, various welds and his's first words were something like, "Jeez, that is one terrible looking trailer!" Hmmm. Our suspicions that the trailer was not good were confirmed.
Matt backed the trailer up to Uncle Don's workshop and Uncle Don went to work on the bearings. Michelle, my mom, the kids and I parked ourselves in the air conditioned living room with my grama.
Just a few minutes into the bearing project, Matt and Dan came in and said, "The trailer bearings are totally shot we don't even know how we made it here. We are going shopping for new bearings."
FOUR HOURS! later, Michelle, Uncle Don and I got concerned that the guys either got lost, got in an accident, or forgot what the goal was. So we called them up. They had driven to every store in Lake County and couldn't find the bearings. They came back empty handed.
We had no choice but to back the bearings as they were, pick up our stuff, and head back to Santa Rosa.
Michelle and I enjoyed our day. We were happily enjoying Grama Betty's company, her refreshments and her air conditioning. The guys were somewhat discouraged that the day was gone and the trailer bearings were so bad.
Here are 4 generations.
Grama Betty and Gideon are best buds.
The goodbye was really hard. We miss them so much.
We drove over to our house. Our renter is keeping things clean and tidy. She also signed another year lease while we were there. We are very thankful God provided her to rent our house. We packed all of our stuff in the trailer and as a last thought I cut ropes holding the boys basketball hoop to our tree and tossed it in the trailer as well.
Our plan was to see if we could find the bearing in Santa Rosa the next morning Sunday. Then get to Santa Rosa Bible Church, go to Sunday school, and have a picnic with our friends from church. We were going to leave from there to go home to Wyoming. Also it was Josiah's birthday that day. He was turning 9.
Sunday morning brought no luck on the trailer bearings. Matt ordered some online and had them shipped one day air to hopefully get them there Monday and we could stay an extra night and leave Monday.
We didn't make it to Sunday school that morning, but we did make it to the picnic and had a wonderful wonderful time catching up with old friends. All their kids had grown so much in 1 year. They all looked great and our time with them was too too short.
After the picnic we went to Chris and Sarah Kuhners for dinner and fellowship. My mom sent us with some rootbeer float supplies and we made Joe a rootbeer float birthday treat and candle.
The bearings - We never got a return email saying the bearings had shipped so we assumed the bearing place was closed on the weekend and most likely the Monday holiday (Labor Day). They wouldn't ship our bearings until Tuesday and we needed to be back to Wyoming by then. We decided to leave without them and hopefully find some in Reno or Sacramento on the way home.
We spent Sunday night in Santa Rosa and packed up and headed out Monday.
We didn't make it far....
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