Wyoming is a miserable State!!

Ok so I am finally posting a few things. You will get to read a few things about our lives lately and I will try to keep better up on it. I have been keeping a running list in my mind about things to blog about so now I actually need to. The first one: Bon Jovi trip that went rouge. For Jason's birthday/our anniversary we decided it would be fun to go see Bon Jovi in Denver. Jason has always been a huge fan and he's always wanted to go to a concert. I like them too so we looked up the tickets and bought them back in November. Of course the good tickets were sold so we had to pay a little more, but we thought it would for sure be worth it. Also, we found out Daughtry was opening for them so that was even cooler. What an awesome concert it was going to be! Right!

So on March 30 we got in my car to drive to Denver. The concert was Monday, March 31st so we decided to enjoy Denver for a day (including a tour of the US Mint). So we drove for about 4 hours with no problems at all on I-80 until we got to Rawlins, WY. There the lights were flashing that the road had been closed due to inclement weather.... What???? It's almost April!! So the news report said that maybe it would open so we parked at the side of the road with all the other punks waiting for the road to open. That was about 1:00. At about 8:00 we finally heard they weren't opening the road until the morning. Luckily Jason had his Ipod so we listened to Lost podcasts and watched some movies. That helped pass the time but either way we were dying. Which, of course, was awesome news. Amazingly there are a lot of hotels in that small town (I guess this happens a lot!). Jason called his Dad and he looked online and called a bunch of hotels for us and, par for the course, all hotels were booked. We decided to drive up to the truck stop and make sure they really weren't going to be opening the road but we had a feeling it wouldn't be as it was snowing and crazy windy. As we were driving up a guy pointed to our tire and said "Your tire is flat". Of course it is, why wouldn't it be? :)

So Jason goes into the truck stop to find a fix a flat which was really our only option at this point. He finally found one (which was an ordeal all in and of itself) and he put it in the tire in about 2 feet of snow and then we had to fill it up with air. The air pump was right between these two semi's so Jason had to direct me in to it and we filled up the tire. His Dad had found that the only available hotel was back 110 miles in Rock Springs. After realizing that was our only option we decided to go for it. We both felt like we should pray but hadn't yet. As we were pulling out my car suddenly died. We were able to coast to a parking lot and in much humility a prayer was said and we were on our way. Amazingly we made it back to Rock Springs on that tire and in the weather conditions and we were finally in to a hotel by about 11:45. Not all hope was lost and we knew we could make it to the concert if the road would open up. I had to kiss the tour of the US Mint goodbye which made me pretty sad but I was glad we were safe.

So we woke up in the morning and called the WY roadservice hotline (which was programmed in Jason's phone) and the road had opened!!!!!! Wahoo! But, the road to get from where we were back to the original trouble spot was closed. At this point we were really losing hope. We had to fix my tire so we went to Wal-Mart and had them fix it and by the time we fixed it the road had opened. We heard the road conditions were a little sketchy but we decided to try it. So we took the 110 miles back to Rawlins and as we were approaching, it became really scary windy. The snow was blowing across the road and we could hardly see. When we made it to Rawlins the road had closed and there were a bunch of accidents on the stretch to Denver. After some tears (from me) we decided it was best to just turn around and go back home. :( I'm not sure if you can tell how windy it was in that pic of us, but it was crazy!!! We were very blessed to not have been in the accidents but were really sad we had to miss the concert. So we turned back around and drove back home to Salt Lake. The only consolation was we went to a movie and Cheesecake factory the next day. It wasn't Bon Jovi, but it would have to do!! So, I've said it once and I'll say it again, Wyoming is a miserable place!!!