A Close One

Yesterday was the first gymnastics meet of the season for CR.  He did well.  Won one silver medal and two ribbons.  Not bad for the first meet of the year. It was in Springville so K was able to come down and meet us there.  It's always nice to see her.  Last year the meets lasted like 4 hours now because he is in level 5 it was only about 2.  Much better I would say.

It was raining all the way down and then coming back it started snowing.  The visibility wasn't great and it was mostly just wet.  All the cars were moving at normal speeds and so were we.  We were only about 5 miles from home when we hydroplaned.  We hit the barrier with our bumper and it threw us into the middle lane.  We spun around and we could see a few cars coming at us.  I was holding on tight because I was sure one of them was going to hit us.  Well they both swerved out of our way and avoided hitting us.  We continued to spin until we were facing the right way again.  We could not hear or feel anything wrong with the van so we just continued driving.  When we got home we discovered that our entire bumper cover was gone.  But no other damage to our car.  What a blessing!  It took us a few hours to get over the shock.  But we just feel so blessed that nothing worse happened to us or others.  It could have been so much worse had there been more cars on the freeway at the time.  We were definitely being watched and cared for!

This is a picture of the back of our van: