the First day of Spring??

The first day of Spring!
(or so i'm told)

Today was insane!! Amanda and I had to drive back to Northridge from Salinas today and I didn't think it would be that bad. We left at like.. 12:40 and needed to be back in Northridge by 5, for a meeting Amanda had to go to.
We gave ourselves plenty of time... if it was a normal day, with normal weather.
But it wasn't... it was POURING down rain, all day.. and HARD!!

The drive wasn't too bad for about the first 2 hours until we go to the 46.
Then it was crazy! It took slightly longer than usual to get over the 46... it was raining pretty hard and the cars were driving slooowww.

Then...
there was the grapevine!

Little did we know...

It took us about 2 hours to get over it... going about 45mph the whole way.
We hydroplaned about 4 or 5 times,
it was terrifying.

Then it got worse. I'm pretty sure I saw the ark float on by.. I was basically driving through a lake and it was TERRIFYING. So.. not exactly knowing what to do or how to handle this... (and being that I was freaking out).. we pulled over to figure it out.

We sat there for a little bit.. thinking that since we were only about 30 miles outside of Northridge, that we needed to just suck it up and go back... so we got back on the road.
About 5 minutes later, I decided that I could NOT do it and that we needed to figure something out. So Amanda called her mom... and here's what her solution was...

So here we are!
We got here around 6ish.. and sat here for a while just kinda hanging out.
We got pizza delivered, and have just been flipping through the few channel options we have trying to stay entertained. No Amanda's been asleep for a while.. and I am TIRED!!
It has been a LONG, exhausting... kinda scary day!

Spring has Sprung!
(kinda)