Addie is leaving for South Africa on the 10th for 6th months, so we wanted to see her before she left. We all decided to meet in Michigan City and do a little shopping and grab some dinner. A winter storm warning was in effect, but come-on we're from Michigan, we can handle it! Wrong. Into the ditch Staci and I went. This first picture is a lovely young man offering to pull us out before AAA could arrive on the scene.
The rest of the drive to MI City was done at an alarmingly slow rate, but we made it.....to Beverly Shores, which is where Addie accidentally got off the train, instead on Michigan City :) Shopping was quick, but dinner at the casino took far too long!
We had four minutes, literally, to eat after our food came out before we had to leave to get Addie to the train station. We went through a couple stop signs and managed to fly through a second ditch, but we were close enough that the train attendant heard our frantic honking and screams to not leave without her. Hallelujah!
The drive back to Grand Rapids took an extra hour because of the bad weather, but we made it home alive. Moral of the story: Listen to the winter weather storm warnings, but go out anyways, because friends are more important ;)
What a riot. So glad this day will forever be documented in cyberspace via your blog... I know it will for sure always be in my memory as well!!! :)
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