Stranded

As many of you know, Brooke and I are on our trek to Utah. It's been an interesting few days. The first day we drove to St. Louis. Everything went great until about 30 miles outside the city, and I got pulled over. Luckily I used my charm to get out of it. I mean, come on, are you surprised? Anyways, if you have been following the path of the big storm that just hit the southeast, that was the same storm that was hitting St. Louis the night we stayed there. I think we might have been just north of it, because all we got was some rain. We were very blessed. Day 2 we drove up to South Dakota to meet Brooke's boyfriend's family. I spent the entire day with a knot in my stomach because it was either POURING down rain, or snowing with icy roads. We made it though, somehow. We were very blessed. Justin's family was wonderful and made us a fantastic lasagna dinner. It was even better considering the fact that we've been living off of granola bars, trail mix, oranges, fruit snacks, carrots, m&ms, celery, starbursts, and peanut butter and bread. Real healthy. Today our plan was to leave at a decent time and make it to Salt Lake late tonight. Everything started out great. The sky was clear, roads were dry, and we were cruising. Then we hit Wyoming. Can we say wind?? Wow. Then we notice a sign that said I-80 was closed ahead. WHAT? We drive all the way up to the very last exit before they had it blocked off, just to make sure. Sure enough, the interstate is closed and there are lines and lines of semis on the side of the road. We found out from a trucker that there was an accident where 5 people died, and they have to close the road to do investigations. There was also an accident on the other detour road. So here we are in Laramie, Wyoming, waiting for the roads to open. We got a hotel and are planning on getting a good rest tonight and leave early tomorrow(assuming the road opens). I know some of you have been praying for us, and we definitely appreciate it. We have been watched over this entire trip. Esp. on day 2 - if you could have seen what we were driving on, you'd think we were crazy. What makes things a little worse for me now is that Spencer is home really sick and throwing up like crazy. Poor guy. He could use a few prayers too.

UPDATE: We are still stuck as of 10:00 am Thursday morning. To give you a better idea as to what the road looks like, I found these pictures online from the road cameras. This is what the roads are supposed to look like:









Okay, now this is what the road currently looks like: