This is the weekend that Caroline (Curt’s college friend) is getting married. We had some grand plans to head down to Rockford on Friday to meet up with Cindy and David (Curt’s friends in Rockford) for dinner, then head to Joliet for the wedding on Saturday.
Mother Nature had another idea. She decided that Friday was a good day to dump some snow on the region, which caused us to cancel our plans for Friday night. We got up Saturday morning, packed up the dog, kids and ourselves and headed out. We got to Janesville (about 1/2 an hour south of us) when Mother Nature started up again. The roads were glare ice and cars were in the ditch everywhere. We pretty much stopped and were lucky if we hit 5 miles an hour after that. There was a semi in the ditch and an SUV that got the worst of it.
After seeing that and testing the road a few times (it was so icy, it didn’t take anything more than a tap on the throttle to cause the tires to spin) we decided it wasn’t worth the risk and turned home.
It was a really tough decision. We were really excited to see Caroline get married and party it up with all of our friends.
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