The day after we got home from Hawaii. My sissy and I decided to attend my Uncle Tom's funeral in Vegas. He died of Cancer after a long struggle. My Mom was speaking and we felt strongly we should be there for her. Well.....
After discovering this was Stephanie's first trip out of the state in 5 years I was actually excited to go with her. We took off around 1:30 in the Jetta. We had a tire blow out in Nephi and Scotty had to leave work in Salt Lake and come and save us. 2 and half hours later he had the Denali down to us and we took off again. The time passed by super fast after that. Steph and I talked and talked. We made it all the way to the strip to meet my parents for dinner when the Denali stalled and would not start in the center lane of the strip on a Friday night. Ugh!! A pregnant Steph and I pushed the car to the side of the road and waited. My Dad came over and got the car to start and putted to the parking lot. We then drove it around and it drove just fine. The next morning I took it to Auto Zone to see if they could tell what was wrong, when I got to the parking lot it stopped working again. This time for good. I pushed it over to the Mechanic 3 doors down and asked them to fix it while I was at the funeral. 4 hours later they called and said it was running great!
We decided to take off for home. We got to Mesquite fine and then........the denali died again on the Virgin River bridge in the dark. We called 911 and fastened our seat belts and prayed for 15 minutes until the highway patrol showed up! So Scary! That was the most frightened I have been in my life but I always still felt a peace around us that we would be OK. (Just hard to not be afraid watching Semi Trucks in your rear view mirror barely miss you!)
The tow truck towed us into St George where Steph graciously paid for our hotel and we spent the night. Scotty borrowed a flat bed and a truck and left at 4:00 am to come and get us. We drove it home and now a week later it is still sitting in my garage waiting to be fixed! We are selling it as soon as it is!
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