4th of july and motorcycle bye bye

over the 4th of july weekend we decided we were going to save money on gas by matt taking the motorcycle and me driving with his parents to pocatello. (there wasn't quite enough room for everyone with kylee's huge carseat) matt called me from his cell just as he had stopped for gas just to check in and say hi. not ten minutes later did i get a call from him saying he had been in an accident and that he'd call me back. (i guess i'm somewhat useless when it comes to being good in an emergency situation cuz i could tell there was something wrong, i just didn't ask any questions like: "are you okay?" "did you hit a car, did a car hit you?" et cetera) i guess what had happened was that he was near craters of the moon taking the scenic route and on a curve had looked away for two seconds and when he looked back was on the white line of the road, with a six inch gravel shoulder. with a car, this is no big deal really because two of the four wheel are still on stable ground on the road, but with a motorcycle when you only have two wheels you're basically done for. the only thing he remembers is seeing he was on the white line and then waking up one his stomach and rolling over onto his back and calling me. the amazing thing is 1) he's still alive, 2) he only broke his pinky, 3) the bike took the worst of it. so we sold the bike for parts and have one car.

but on a happier note, once we actually got to pocatello and matt wasn't dead, we had a good time. it's always nice to see his mom's side of the family, they always have so much fun stuff planned. it was nice to see everybody. the parade is always fun, and it seems to turn us both into little kids again. kylee is wearing her 4th of july outfit and lookin so cute ...

the weirdest thing was on the afternoon of the 4th after the parade when it started to hail! yes, hail as in ice chunks that were 1 1/4 inches in diameter big! i've NEVER seen hail that big before, for at least half an hour it was hailing and raining/snowing. what a weird thing huh? and then the creek across the road from the cornwalls house flooded over! it flooded houses for probably a quarter mile, including the corner store. it was heartwrenching to see these people loosing their possessions and homes to this freak flood water. there was nothing we could do for them.

that was enough eventfulness to last me for a while!