April 2009

April 2009
We decided to go on a “buying trip” to Georgetown, Texas. We drove all day and we decided to eat right as we got there. So, when we were done we realized it was already 4:30 and most of the shops close at 5:00 or 5:30. We are thinking WHAT A WASTE OF DAY till we decide to just get a hotel and stay the night and then have all day to go to the shops!!! All except we are trying to be cheap, so we call our friend in Bryan, TX to ask if we can stay there. Of course we could but we had no clothes. So we go to Wal-Mart and get some shorts and tooth paste, etc and go back to our friend’s house. In the morning, we get up laughing (as usual) until our friend comes in the room and asked where we parked our car. We said out in front of your apartment. To make a looooong story short, our car was GONE! We called the insurance to get the VIN # then we called the police station and we were told it was repossessed. There was no way!! The police in Bryan had the wrong VIN # so we had to report it stolen. The whole time we were worried about our antiques that we had bought on the way there, not our GPS, our gun, or belongings in the car :) So, the cops tell us that we need to come down to the police station and make a report but HELLLLLOOOOO our car is gone!!! So, after a ton of calls all over the place we find out that our car had been towed. We parked in a regular parking spot, not in a visitor parking spot. We, nor our friend, were aware of the “visitor parking” they spoke of. So, we call a taxi because our friend had to leave. We don’t ride in taxis here so we didn’t know what to expect or anything. Finally, we get a taxi to pick us up. It was this little old lady that gave my sister (because she got the front seat) an entire tour of Bryan, TX on the way to the tow company. We get there to get our car, pay our $325.00!!!!! and there was a ton of other very angry people there to get their cars too. We were thinking there was going to be a fight because the tow truck people were being so rude to everyone. We just wanted to pay and leave. We got our car and you would think after all this, we would just want to go home and be done with this trip but nooooooooooooooooooooooo we had shopping to do!!!!!!!!!!!!! We go back to Georgetown which was not just a hop, skip, and a jump from Bryan. We shop and have a blast!! Oh, I forgot to tell you that Charla was the one who parked our car in the regular parking because Johnnie fell off the curb and hurt her ankle so it was swollen. It’s mean of us but all we could do is laugh at her because somehow her flip flop made it into the air higher than her head. It was quite an adventure. We should’ve known by this point, it was going to be a journey