stacey ewing

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we had to drive home fairly early so that we could get home in time for Tim to play a gig down in Micanopy. We ended up leaving the station wagon in Ft. Myers with Jay- he was going to have it towed over to his mechanic on Monday and he very generously loaned us his truck to drive home so we didn’t have to rent a car.

Turns out it wasn’t the timing belt after all. It was the starter, a related fuse, and some very, very, very, very, very bad, bad, bad, bad, bad spark plugs. So, lucky, lucky, lucky for us, it cost much, much, much, much less than the $800-900 we’d anticipated!

Early this morning, Jay and Lorraine very kindly drove up (little more than halfway) to meet us at Wesley Chapel and trade out cars. We had a nice breakfast and hang with them at the Cracker Barrel before heading back home.

Anyway, Tim and I can’t thank the two of them enough for SUCH a great (and fun!!) holiday and for ALL of their help with our car situation. They both went far out of their way to help us and we know it wasn’t easy getting up that early and driving all the way north to meet us at 8:30am. ouch! Thanks you guys!! <3