Trip To NY

Last Saturday we left NH in our Jeep to go to my Grandparents' house in NY to make them Easter dinner. When we dropped the dogs off at the kennel early in the morning it was snowing lightly. It wasn't until we were in Vermont and more than half-way to NY that it started to sleet. The Jeep slid and we went into the median. We hit a large rock boulder and went into the other lane of traffic - luckily there weren't any cars there at that time - and that's when I moved the steering wheel so we went back into the median.

It was a pretty scary experience and could have been a lot worse. I tried using my cell phone to call the police, but had no bars. Most cars just drove past and didn't bother to even stop and check to see if everything was fine. One guy who did stop called the police for us. While we waited we saw that on the same road we had been on there were several different accidents - one car was completely totaled.

A volunteer fireman came over and asked if we needed help and when I told him what happened he started laughing. This was an old man who is supposed to help people. He was a prick and I let him know that and he left. Then an ambulance came to check on us and left to check on the other accidents. Finally the police came and the guy asked if we could make it out of the median. I tried but the car was making a very loud noise and so I had him call us a tow-truck. The tow-truck came and he took us to his house/garage. It was a little weird waiting with his wife while he looked at the car. In the end he said he couldn't do much as it wasn't his specialty. He suggested we drive back home (2 hours away) but we decided to go to NY (1 hour away.) We knew there was more of a chance to get the car repaired there than at home.

I called the insurance company and they told us what car place and rental car place to use in the city we were going to - since it was late on Saturday and the next day was Easter Sunday nothing would be open until Monday (today.)

We made it to NY - it was a little nerve-wracking to drive down the mountain road with a broken car. We dropped the food at my Grandparents' house (everything had been flown around the car in the accident, but it was still usable.) Then we checked in the hotel and ate at a German Restaurant we like (we used my Great-Aunt's car for the longer driving.)We went back to my Grandparents' house where my Aunt, Uncle, Great-Aunt and cousins were and hung out for a while. We watched one of the DVDs I made of some slides with pictures of my dad and uncle from the 1950s-1990s.

Easter Sunday we ate breakfast at the hotel and then headed to my Grandparents' house. We cooked a traditional Polish Easter Dinner (ham, pierogies, asparagus, Pashka bread) and also had horseradish soup and carrot cake - it was all so good. Everyone had a great time.

Today (Monday)I took the car to the garage where they looked at it and said we needed a rental car. We got an ugly white Mazda. After waiting all day to see if the Jeep could be fixed (the frame is bent, etc) we were told it was fixable. It won't be done until May 6th and so we are taking the rental car and going home tomorrow.

Today we took my Great-Aunt to Red Robin for lunch and then for dinner we went to a Chinese Restaurant and then Friendly's for ice cream. Despite the accident the rest of the trip was good (although once the car is fixed and we come get it it will be a long time before I come back here.) So tomorrow we will go home - hopefully it won't be snowing - and get the dogs.