Day 1 Happenings

Yesterday, Team Huff left for our first 2 week tour to Tennessee and Florida. A 14 hr trip to Johnson City, Tn turned into an 17 1/2hr trip very quickly. To start this blog post, we are all safe and laughing about everything now. It was just the craziest day of traveling we have ever had. 

First, we start the day out on a good note. We left around 6 I drove the first shift of about 4 hrs then let my partner in crime aka my only other teammate that can drive with a trailer take the wheel. She drove several hours while I slept. It was all swell until we hit Kentucky. Oh Kentucky! We cross 2 of the most narrowest bridges of our life then it happened. Our trailer decided to fall of our van breaking a chain, fraying the light wires, and bending the thing that lowers the clip around the ball.

Amie was driving and she did a fantastic job of staying calm and getting us to a safe place. I am so proud of her for doing so. It could have happened to me just as easily. We got ahold of our bosses and then called Uhaul. After 2 hours and 2 older men that reminded me so much of my grandpa huff, we got back on the road. We were just so thankful that it didn't happen while on the narrow bridges. It could have been a lot worse! That's experience #1. 

#2. Amie decided she wanted to drive next so that she wouldn't be scared of driving with the trailer. Go Amie!! We get between Nashville and Kentucky when we get to a stand still for an hour and a half. A wreck. We had so much fun during this time singing our hearts out to the frozen and the phantom of the opera sound track. :) 

#3. These next 2 were when I was driving. #3 was just a crazy rain storm that made me not be able to see the lines. It's one thing that I hate and 1 more thing that added to our list. 

#4. To top it all off, we were about 5-10 minutes from Milligan College when we were stopped at a police check point. Let me remind you that this all happened in 1 day. Thank goodness we had Christ In Youth written on our van. He asked us if we had been drinking. We said no and asked us what we were doing. We told him and he told us to look up Abby Anderson on YouTube. It was so funny!

So our day was full of adventure to say the least. I got into bed finally last night at 1:15. I just have to brag on my team for a second. Holy cow! They are and were fantastic. Nobody freaked out. We all stayed calm. It was an awesome day with awesome people. 

To make the day even better, my mom packed us 8 stress relief bags for our summer. Yes yesterday was when we used one of our bags and it was this.. 

Thanks mom!!! 

When we finally made it to Tennessee!