Our Christmas Scary Ghost Story

As many of you know, we did not make it to Midland for Christmas Eve. We left around 1:30pm on the 24th as the snow lightly fell to the ground and melted. As we got on the road it began to snow harder and we found ourselves in a blizzard.

The roads froze and cars were sliding off the highway left and right. The interstate was not any better. Some 18-wheelers wrecked and blocked all of I-20 which caused the road to completely shut down. Our gas light was on. We had driven about 40 miles and were 2.5 hours into our trip. We made it to the access road, did a u-turn to get gas. Since the roads were so slick we decided to turn around and get a hotel room in Weatherford at the Hampton Inn. As we crept slowly to our hotel we hit an ice patch and did a 180 - almost hit a median (within 2 feet) and an 18-wheeler was about 100 ft behind us - it could have been bad! We all sat in silence for a moment and Carter said "That was a scary story! Was that a scary ghost story, Mama?"

So, that was our scary ghost story. We made it the Hampton, had dinner at On The Border (thank goodness it was open) and Santa did know where to find Carter Christmas morning.

 

 

 

Christmas Morning - Driving to Midland