Here at the Goulding household we had a fun filled weekend with family. My mom, dad, Naomi, Zach, Tasha, Darren, Tricia, Kerry, Chase and Branson all came out. We spent most of the time working on the house in Pineville, but we did stop to play a little. I would like to share this picture with all of you.....
If you are wondering what it is, I will now explain. Every year they have this FABULOUS Christmas Festival in the little town of Natchitoches. (The town where they filmed Steel Magnolias) They have little cobblestone streets filled with booths that sell the best Meat Pies and Funnel Cakes you've ever had. They light up the whole river with millions of Christmas lights and they do parades, activities, and fireworks. Us girls decided we were going to leave the boys working at the house and take the kids to Natchitoches to enjoy ourselves at the festival. The problem is, my car won't fit everyone and we all wanted to go together. So I had this great plan to take the 15 passenger van from the school. We all loaded up and headed up north.
We were running a little late so as we passed the park I decided just to drive up over the curb and park on the grass. It was kind of a last minute decision so after I was on the grass I decided it would be smart to turn around in the middle of the park and so I would be parked the other way. That way we could escape easier. Since we probably weren't supposed to have our cars in the middle of the park anyway. As I driving speedily across the grass I hit the one wet spot in the whole stinkin' park. And you guessed it, we got stuck. Not just kind of stuck, our wheel was 3/4 of the way deep in mud. And to top that off we missed the fireworks. We had to watch them as we all stood around the stuck van.
Too late, we were already stuck, so we left the van in the middle of the park and went to enjoy the Christmas Festival.
By the time we were done playing, my wonderful husband had driven all the way up to Natchitoches to save us. He pulled us out with his truck (and a little help from a police officer) It was great fun!!!!
If anyone feels the need for driving lessons, please ask. I'd be happy to help out wherever I can.
2 comments:
This is quite funny. I love that you figured there is nothing you can do about it so ....let's go have fun. My kind of deal! I do need lessons..I drove over a curb, just today.
Hey Nicole, I love your blog (found the link from the Hallows). Your little girl is so precious and Dusky looks a lot like Dace now. I can relate to the stuck 15 passenger van. I got mine stuck in my front yard while pulling out of the driveway...fun stuff!
Kristy Lochabay
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