FUN VAN.... not so fun

On our recent road trip to Salt Lake City for spring break my van started acting up. First the battery light would illuminate at random with no other symptom. They after gassing up it wouldn't start. Ray came and gave us a jump and we were good-to-go. Saturday morning we packed and headed for my Mom's to get Chloe and Evan on our way to start driving to Boise..... but that's when the demon took over my car. The stereo glitched and the heat went off. All the lights on the dash went on and then the gas just revved instead of moving the car. AAAAAAUG! We made it safely to my Mom's where I called Russ who'd already made it back to Boise. We decided to go to Jiffy Lube. They said my battery was fine but my alternator was finished! So lucky for us we got a new one at Pep Boys and finally got on the road at 6:00 p.m. All is not well, however. As we drove I noticed that when using the blinker all of the lights in the dash would black-out. (no more blinker) And then at random the gauges would quit working (no gas, no speedometer, no RPM etc) and then they'd continue again. I was pretty worried that I'd lose my headlights but I must have had a gaurdian angel looking out for us because we didn't have any other problems and we got home safely.... Oh I forgot to mention the broken windshield. The day we left Boise for SLC a tiny rock jumped up and made a tiny crack in my windshield. Not a big deal, right? The first day in SLC it snowed.... alot. I cleaned off the car and in the few minutes it took to get warm the crack had gone from tiny to humongous! Then a few days later Eliza tossed her coat on the dash forgetting that her cell phone was in the pocket... It hit the window and created a whole new design for our viewing and driving pleasure.

Update.... I've got a brand new, gorgeous, crytal clear windshield. It's so nice!