Destination: Destin

We made it to Destin today around 5:00. Not without some bumps along the way though. Well just one actually. We decided to drive since the whole family was going and at the end my sister decided to join us so it worked out best that we decided to drive. My work provides company vehicles for driving and they are usually nice. We had a 2009 Chrysler Town and Country that is very well equipped. All was fine until about 30 minutes the other side of Jonesboro, Arkansas when we noticed the air conditioning wasn't working. It soon started blowing hot air! We made it to Jackson, Mississippi that night, roughly 4 and 1/2 hours in the heat. It was hot! We got to Jackson around midnight because we spent some time trying to see what was wrong, I even changed the fuse just hoping it was that. We left Jackson around 10:00 this morning. Passed through Hattiesburg (sp?) around 11:30 and thought we would see if a car repair place, specifically Firestone, was open. I needed to know Firestone's hours earlier this week so I knew they were open on Sunday. We found one and they were nice enough to check it out and found out we had a hole in the condensor. They could fix it, but, after market parts aren't available yet on this model and you can only get that through a Chrysler dealership, which isn't open on Sundays so we were without airconditioning. Three and a 1/2 hours later we made it to Destin. To be honest it was nasty. Driving 30 minutes or an hour without air conditioning isn't the end of the world, a 13 hour trip though is a completely different thing. The thermometer read 104 degrees much of today. We were dripping wet and the seats have sweat stains and all in all it was just nasty. We really hope to get it fixed before we head back. To be simple about it heading back sounds absolutely miserable if we can't fix it. Pray we fix it!

The kids did great though considering the cirumstances. With air the trip would have actually been just fine. Oh well we are looking forward to having a great vacation. We have an ocean side room with a separate kids room so it is nice. I'll try and blog and finish out the month strong...