What a weekend and then some

I had a good time at my conference I learned a lot and met some new friends.

Our time in Fargo was nice and relaxing. We had some good family time.

The children and I left Fargo about 2:00 Monday afternoon. The children were relaxing and I was just driving along planning want I needed to do when I get home and for next few days.

NOW Comes the the really really bad part.

We were about 10 miles out of Valley City and the van started making some noise and it kept getting louder and louder. So I tell E to call her dad. Meanwhile I an looking for a safe place to get off the road, not be able to find a real good place I pull over on the shoulder of the road, still trying to find a safer place. We drive a few yards and the van stops running and I step on the brake but the van doesn't seem to want to stop, so I put it in park. When I get the van to stop, there smoke coming out from under the hood of the van. Now I know we are in big trouble.
We finally get a hold of my DH and he arranges for a truck to come to troll us and my DH says he will be there as soon as he can .(he is still in Fargo working).
To make a long story short, Two hour after I get the van stop and T not handling it well. The troll truck and my DH get there.
We take the van into Jamestown and find out that the engine it shot. So we can not get all the children and us parents in the car. We decide that we will have to junk the van, because it will cost way to much to fix our old and high miles van. We decide are going to need help getting us all back home. We have to call my sister and she gets my father minivan and come to help get us. Now that it is getting later my sister takes T,M,K and me to her house and will take us home Tuesday after she gets done at work.

Tuesday DH takes care of getting the van junked, he had to go back to Jamestown to do this. My sister bring us home after work , so now we are all home.


Now we start the next chapter of this mess , we need a new van. Now we don't have any that all seven of can fit in to go any where. We need a new van.