Emmi is on her way - Abby's flight gets cancelled

 Abby's flight to LA on Southwest got cancelled and there would be no more flights with SW until the 31st!!  Annie searched the other airlines trying to find a flight for Abby and nothing was available.  There were just no options to get Abby back to California.  So I got a call from Lynda Ann after midnight telling me the situation and asking me if I would be willing to drive with her and Abby to California that next morning!  I told her I could do that.  Annie was able to rent a car for $125.00 and preparations went into motion to leave the next morning to get Abby back to Calif.  They picked me up at 9:30 and we headed out.  It just happened that there wasn't any major snow storms going on.  We did have a lot of rain and some slush through most of Utah until we got past Cedar City and then it got better.  Annie drove all the way on about 3 hours of sleep the night before.  Abby talked all about her mission and her testimony of the gospel and Jesus Christ.  It was an amazing trip and the time went by incredibly fast.  We arrive in LA about 9:30 and fell into bed.  The next day was spent driving all around Abby's mission area and viewing the parks and places she had told us about.  We met up with one of her friends for lunch and then met up with Antonio for dinner.  It was a perfect day and almost perfect temperature.  

The next morning, Annie and I got up at 3:30 and left LA at 4:15.  Again she drove all the way home.  We were blessed again with a window of good weather and dry roads.  We arrived in Salt Lake at 1:30 taking us 9 hours and 15 minutes to get home.  It was a fast turn around trip but it worked out beautifully and we all felt blessed and well taken care of.

This isn't my story but I will add these pictures of Abby and Antonio.  

There was one crazy incident that happened that I will do my best to try and explain.  We were within 5 minutes of Abby place and we were talking and laughing and Annie missed the exit.  It was determined that because we had missed the exit it was going to now take us 30 more minutes because there was an accident ahead on the freeway.  As we slowed down for all the traffic and came to a stop, we noticed that the ON RAMP was to the right side of us and it was blocked off and cars were turning around and headed back up the on ramp.  So Abby and I totally talked Annie into driving over the area between the freeway and the on ramp and following the other cars back up the on ramp.  When we did it, we noticed the cars behind us doing following our lead!  We were laughing so dang hard.  This picture is looking back down the on ramp freeway entrance and the cars following us back the wrong way.  

We made it safely to Abby's!!