I think it was about three weeks ago today, we drove the boys to the church for scouts. James said how it smelled like gas. He soon realized that we had a gas leak. So we didn't drive the Suburban anymore. My mom and Darlad allowed us to use their Excursion while our car is down. So that Friday James and I went to Wal-Mart to replace a front tire that he was afraid would blow. On Saturday we got everyone ready to make the two hour trip to get the Excursion. When James went out to start the van, at about 11:00 a.m., he saw that the van had a flat tire in the back. It takes about thirty minutes to get the tired air up. We head to Joplin to go to Sam's Club to get it fixed. We get to the west side of Joplin and the tire is flat. We go to Casey's to use their free air. Their air is frozen. We drive across the road to another station and they do not have air. James called his dad, and Steve comes and rescues us. They have an air compressor. After about five minutes we were on our way again.
We arrive at Sam's. I take the children in and James parks the car. We learn that Sam's can't fix the tire today. Their air compressor is frozen. I forgot to tell you that this is when the weather was the coldest ever. My wonderful husband didn't leave until things were taken care of. He arranges for us to go to Wal-Mart and have our tire fixed. So off to Wal-Mart we go.
The nice people at Wal-Mart told us it would be about an hour and a half. We decide to go eat lunch at Wendy's, so we walk down the hill and have lunch. Our time was not up so we went to Academy Sports and looked around. I told James that I would walk up the hill, and get the van and come back and get him and the kids.
When I got back to Wal-Mart the nice man tells me that the hole is in the sidewall and they cannot fix it. I call James and tell him, and him and the children head up the hill. Long story short, James and the boys go to Sam's and get a new tire, and bring the new tire back so that the men at Wal-Mart can put it back on.
We wanted to be home for dinner. We spent over five hours getting our tire fixed. Guess what, we didn't make it home for dinner. My mom was so kind to make us dinner. We got to Cassville around 7:00 p.m. We visited for awhile and had dinner. Our suppose to be short trip to Cassville ended up being all day and we got home about 12:00 a.m.
The next week we went and got the trailer from Steve so we could get our Suburban to his shop. Thanks to Steve, THANK YOU STEVE, our Suburban is now fixed. I don't understand all that was wrong and it is wrong of me to even attempt to tell you something that I don't know the slightest bit about, so I won't. I am sure that in the near future we will have to drive the Excursion back to Cassville to return it when we get our Suburban. I am just grateful that it wasn't as bad as we first thought it would be. And I am thankful for all of you that have helped in our time of need. THANK YOU FROM THE HUGHLETTS
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