04-9-2008 - Welcome Home!!

My mood while writing this blog: Relieved

Hey Ladies! I just wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers during our time of "STRESS!" Thankfully the hurricane scaled down and didn't hit us as hard as they said it would. Needless to say we had an eventful evacuation though! Starting out Sunday morning we left at 7:00 am. My step-daughter and I in my car, My DH, our lab and border collie mix in the other car and my Father in law in his car. (I had been begging my DH to leave on Sat. but we didn't have hotel reservations until Sunday night!) It took us 14 hours to go 125 miles! Do the math, that's not even 9 miles an hour. Ladies it was miserable! At one point I had to hold my pee for 7.5 hours!! When we were finally able to exit, in the pouring rain, the 1st station's restroom was closed, so needless to say, SD and I went in the woods! What a sight, we were not alone, everyone had that same idea :) We finally make it to the hotel, where every restuarant is closed except an Arby's which in my opinion is nasty, so everyone also had the same idea to eat at Arby's, we waited another 50 minutes to get food. FINALLY back at the hotel we were able to pee, shower and get in the bed. Oh let me not forget that the night before I didn't get any sleep over thinking my house would flood, and my neighbors were screaming at 2:30am over someone coming into their house to use the phone. So finally in the bed, two huge dogs in their cages and I was knocked out, until my Father in law starts to SNORE all night! It was complete hell the first night. We all adjusted and made it through. We came home yesterday to NO ELECTRICITY, but our hotel could not give us another night because they didn't have rooms! My DH and I slept in the HEAT last night and I took 4 COLD baths to make it through. Our electricity finally came on today and I'm in the process of washing bed sheets and clothes and I can not wait to take a warm shower and sleep in the comfort of my air conditioner and my own bed without two dogs in the room and a snoring Father in Law.

I'm so thankful that our home was still here. Also, my baby KICKED and moved the whole time so He's doing great! Thanks again for your concern!

xoxo Rosa