Funeral and Weather

Travis and I were able to go to his grandfather's funeral last weekend. Luckily, my parents were willing and able to stay and watch all 3 of our kids so we could go. It was enlightening to learn more about his grandfather as he and I both didn't know much about him. (It was Annette's Father).

Anyway, the weather was horrid. We flew into southern Oregon and drove about 50 miles to a city in Northern California. We had to go back to the airport on Sunday for his parents and caught major weather. We decided to eat lunch before heading down the mountain - it was already snowing but not too bad. By the time we were done with lunch we knew it was bad. We kept thinking if we had only gone strait down the mountain we would've been better off. However, after starting down, we realized the Lord's hand in our lunch experience. Had we not stopped we would've likely slid off the road and not seen the patrol people making certain changes mandatory. These pictures don't do it justice, but it was definitely an experience. The highway patrol was making chains down the Siskyou mountains mandatory. Well, we were in a rental, so we had no chains...luckily, there was a little man off the first ramp we got off who had a sign near his vehicle that said I have chains. So, we paid him and he sold us a set and put them on for us. Needless to say the usually 1 hour drive from the airport turned into 3 and we were exhausted by the time we got back to the hotel.