Off to "P-Town" once again!

12.28.07
Friday morning, we awoke, quickly packed up the car and headed out to "P-Town" where we were going to help Megan fix her car which was still in the Winco Parking Lot, and fly outa town! Before we left for Portland, I just HAD to get a family picture across the street from Justin's parent's home. They was an old side walk lined with trees and shrubbery. We had past it almost daily, and every time I looked at it, I made a mental note to get a picture of it!




Driving outside of Aberdeen, Justin's parents showed us the aftermath of the wicked storm that just swept through their neck of the woods not too long ago. Their town was out of power for days, trees are still down due to it's wreckage.
I forgot to mention on an earlier post, Justin spent a good chunk of one morning helping his father haul tree trunks out of their backyard. What a sweet son and hard worker he is. The cousins and Trey loved watching he and Grandpa Larry work at sawing the trees and hauling them to the front of the house!

We arrived in Vancouver, Washington to find Megan's car had been moved to a different parking slot then the one we left it in. (we later found out Megan had come the night before and moved it, just so it didn't look THAT suspicious! I guess it HAD been sitting in the same spot for 6 days, but at a 24 hour grocery store, who notices!) It was amazing at how many people stopped to help Larry, Justin and Megan with the car. The first was an older woman who said that her car was the same model and year, and it too had the exact same problem as Megan's. She gave some great pointers, considering the three of them had NEVER worked on this car before. The second was a generous man who asked if he could help for a bit. The third, was a younger guy who was a mechanic in training! He did the trick, and refused to be paid with Marie's "Christmas Cookies" for all of his hard work! More cookies for us!!!

Once her car was fixed, it was off to the Portland Airport!