Friday night we drove from Seattle back to the Tri-Cities for one last goodbye. We knew we had the short leg of our trip, 6 hours, on Saturday so we spent a leisurely morning eating left over Mongolian and checking out the Reil farm (Libbie's parents farm.) The kids loved the sheep and chickens. They got to hold some of Maddie's bunnies and take a peek at the new kittens.
The best part of the visit was walking through the orchard. I have never picked a peach off the tree and eaten it where I stood, peach juice dripping down my forearms. The Reil's are growing plums, peaches, apples and pears. How wonderful to have fresh fruit in your backyard! I stood in this beautiful orchard gulping in warm fruit-filled air and felt so blessed by Heavenly Father and his creations.
We loaded back into the car with full bellies and Josh opened the sun roof. It was literally the perfect summer day, until Josh went to close the sun roof... and it wouldn't budge. We tried everything. We took it to the dealership they wanted a week to fix it. We sat on the phone with our dealership trying to find the manual crank only to learn the new models don't have a manual crank. So, we were facing an 18 hour drive with a gaping hole in the roof.
That's where you Anguianos came in. We expected you to watch over us and fulfill your purpose. You worked just fine through Oregon where the speed limit was 65 (Did I mention I now hate Oregon, a story for another time) but as soon as we hit Idaho and opened her up to 80... you couldn't handle the pressure. The result? We still ended up doing 14 hours roofless.
Anguiano's discarded family portrait which Josh cut to fit in the exposed sun roof. See picture below for Anguianos in action.
Josh "MacGyver" Saunders engineered the roof with portrait and cut up pool noodle to keep the draft out. It worked beautifully for a time. I blame the Anguianos!
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