Over the weekend we went to Memphis to attend the temple there. Usually it is a 3 1/2 hour drive and we leave when Joseph finishes work. He gets finished early afternoon on Friday. Anyway, our trip ended up taking over 7 1/2 hours because a West bound semi truck crossed the median hitting an East bound semi truck. The crash caused the East bound truck to catch on fire and the driver was killed. (We didn't know about this until we arrived at our hotel at 9:30 pm.) This shut down the freeway for hours and all traffic was diverted onto a 2 lane road to bypass the accident.
Thank goodness for our portable DVD player. That kept Kimball entertained the entire trip and Rebecah was a trooper too, especially since she could see her Mama but couldn't be held. We had food with us because we always bring our dinner to the hotel instead of going out. We also had Kimball's little potty chair. Twice he was able to just hope down from his seat while we were stopped so we didn't have any accidents of the other kind.
On the way home we came upon an accident as we were leaving Memphis. Joseph decided one long trip was enough for one weekend and he was able to find an alternate route out of Memphis that didn't take us too far out of our way and was faster than sitting waiting for the accident to be cleared.
We passed Friday's accident site and it was amazing to us that even after 24 hours traffic was still backed up about 3 miles going East. The traffic was slow but moving.
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