Our weekend trip to Dallas turned into the weekend from hell.\u00a0 Mishaps alone are not a big deal, but add 100+ degree weather and you have a recipie for disaster!!!<\/p>\n
Most of you who know my family and me know that they make fun of my 2 degree thermostat.\u00a0 My mom (lovingly, I think) jokes that I have a 2 degree thermostat.\u00a0 I’m either burning up or freezing cold.\u00a0 There is no in between and since I live in South Texas, I’m usually burning up.\u00a0 I know, what a brat.\u00a0 I tell you this because I want you to keep in mind that everything I’m about to explain happened on the hottest weekend of the year in 100-105 degree weather.<\/p>\n
We left San Antonio at 10am Friday morning headed for a relaxing weekend in Dallas where Randy would get to play volleyball and I would get to spend lots of time with all of my friends in Dallas who I don’t get to see very often.\u00a0 When we were in San Marcos the air conditioner in Randy’s car decided to stop working.\u00a0 We had to turn around and change cars.\u00a0 (Don’t forget that we had to drive 45 minutes home with no a\/c.)\u00a0 Not only was it scorching hot in the car, but the thermostat kept beeping the entire time.\u00a0 Randy and I didn’t speak.\u00a0 The whole way home I kept praying that Reed was ok and that he would stay asleep.\u00a0 I don’t think I could have dealt with a screaming baby on top of the heat and stress.\u00a0 He proved he IS the best baby in the world because he slept the whole way home.<\/p>\n
We got home and moved all our stuff to my car.\u00a0 At noon we were headed out for the second time.\u00a0 The rest of the trip was long and 35 was full of traffic, but it was uneventful.\u00a0 We even got to Dallas in time to have dinner with the Browns and the Keiths, which was the whole reason Reed and I came on the trip.\u00a0 Unfortunately we had to cut our time short because we hadn’t checked into the hotel yet and didn’t know what we were going to find.\u00a0 Thank the Lord we left when we did.<\/p>\n
We got to our hotel (which I foolishly picked out online and prepaid for).\u00a0 It was next door to a strip club.\u00a0 I could probably stop talking right there and you would get the picture.\u00a0 I won’t go into details because this post is going to be long enough, but I have never felt more dirty and unsafe in my life.\u00a0 We walked up to the room took one look and walked back out to our car, drove off and never looked back.\u00a0 At this point it is 10:30 and we have had a terribly exhausting day, we are still hot and smelly and we have no idea where we are going to sleep.\u00a0 I drove to Grand Prairie and luckily we found a hotel.\u00a0 We finally got into bed at midnight.<\/p>\n
The next day was Randy’s tournament.\u00a0 We\u00a0prepared for the heat, but there really is no way to prepare for it.\u00a0 As we leave the hotel we notice that I-20 West is completely shut down.\u00a0 Luckily we didn’t have to get on it, but there was an accident and it had been shut down since 5am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tournament was good.\u00a0 Randy’s team was having a good time and surviving the heat.\u00a0 Reed slept most of the morning and I was\u00a0sweaty, but ok.\u00a0 At 1pm I decide I need to get Reed (and me) out of the heat so we head back to the hotel.\u00a0 Randy had a 2 hour break so we were going to cool down and then come back for his last match.\u00a0 I completely forgot about I-20.\u00a0 I got on the highway before I could see that the traffic was still stopped.\u00a0 It took me an hour to go one exit.\u00a0 I was in tears because I was so sweaty and hot and truly didn’t know how long I would be stuck.\u00a0 Plus, my a\/c was working but there is only so much it can do in stopped traffic.\u00a0 Once again, Reed is a life saver.\u00a0 He slept the whole time.\u00a0 I think I might have had a nervous breakdown if he had been screaming in the back seat because I already felt like a terrible mom for keeping him in the heat as long as I did.\u00a0 Needless to say we did not watch Randy’s last match.<\/p>\n
The rest of the weekend was fine.\u00a0 We had dinner with Amanda and John Saturday night and Sunday the boys played again.\u00a0 They finished playing in time for us to take showers in the hotel before we hit the road again.\u00a0 The drive home was SO much better than the drive up there.\u00a0 Totally uneventful.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The reason for the title of my post is that all weekend I kept saying how greatful I am that Reed is such a good sleeper and is so laid back.\u00a0 I wonder where he gets it from, because it obviously isn’t from me!!!!<\/p>\n
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