Day 11 :: Christmas in June :: #100HappyDays vs. #100RealDays

6/22/14

 

After QUITE the eventful day (it included lightening, a hail storm, and the cat running away and having to chase it down), we made it to Salt Lake City! We passed some of the hours in the truck by watching Christmas movies :) 

 #100happydays #100realdays

 

Earlier in the day...

My favorite new thing at Starbucks- the protein box! Plus my Iced No Classic Green Tea Lemonade :)

Me likey! I got my sister and mom hooked too.

L just loving it.

B LOVES her cake pop!

After Starbucks, as we were driving north of Denver toward the border, we saw some ominous looking clouds. Erica checked her weather radar and saw red. Red is bad. However, it wasn't a tornado, so we kept going. We hoped for rain.

 

 

 

It started down pouring rain as we got under the dark cloud cover. Then it turned to hail. Several cars were pulled off to the side of the road, including a motorcyclist who freaked me out by yelling at me to slow down. I was following a Honda sedan though, so I figured I was ok in the giant Monster-truck of a vehicle I was driving. (My sister and her husband just bought a 2014 RAM 2500.)

However, the hail was really coming down and we wanted to take a picture, so I pulled over in between 2 metal snow markers. You can't really tell from the picture, but it was a few inches deep.

Then we decided that maybe we should get out of the truck and frolic around. I mean, how many times are you going to be stuck in a hail storm in the middle of June?

I pulled forward a bit more off the road. THUNK!! (Remember how I said this is a brand new truck??) Apparently there was a 3rd snow marker that I didn't see because it was bent over, probably from someone else running over it. Erica tried to check it out, but there was the hail storm. So, after 20 minutes of me sweating bullets thinking I'd ruined their beautiful beast of a truck, we were able to pull over out of the storm. We couldn't see any damage. Phew!

Score one for monster trucks. 

The edge of the storm.

 

 

Also, we got some good gas mileage this day! 21.5 average.