Stressful, but Great Weekend

So this last weekend the Husband and I went to Stanly, ID for his family reunion. We decided to take our kayaks so that my brother-in-law wouldn't have to at least rent any kayaks. We had bought these $200 racks to go on the car to hold them. We paid about $300 for the kayaks themselves and like another $100 for the carrier pieces.

We're going 80 MPH down the highway (where that was the speed limit lol). We came out from under an overpass and big rig truck blew past us. All the different air pressures and currents blew the kayaks, holder, and racks right off the top off my car while I was driving. So here we are pulled over running across the highway to get all our stuff so no one can run it over and get hurt.

The racks are garbage so they just go in the back seat and two of our four straps broke so they go in there too. We get it strapped down with just the two straps and I get back up to speed going about 60 this time and they blow off again (on their own). Now this area we were in was have 40+ mph gusts of wind which did not help.

So here we are again running after these kayaks. We were already upset at the loss of the racks themselves we were not about to lose our $300 kayaks too. We finally get them on there to where they will stay and we make it to Idaho. The next truck stop we see we stop and get more straps. So by the time we got to Stanley (2+ hours after we should have when we left that morning) we still have the kayaks and it's late.

Once we were there though it was a lot of fun. We went to the lake Saturday and saw most of my bother-in-law's kids and most of Husband's kids. It was really awesome to see them and the grand-kids. We had loads of fun ate some great food. Sunday was much better because at this point we knew how to attach these things so they weren't going anywhere. We didn't go above 70 the way home, but they didn't move and we got them home in one piece.

NOW on to the weight stuff! I weighed myself this morning and I'm down to 264.2! That means I am down 4.8 lbs!!!!! I'm so happy when I saw this morning I figured I'd blog early about it. I may blog again tonight, but it will be shorter with my streaks information.

You all are amazing!
-Ayvid