I Love It When a Plan Comes Together
Jul. 23rd, 2022 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperToday's plan involved assorted Midkiffs and Ropers meeting assorted Romans at the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Jen had originally thought to leave directly from Bristol, but I suggested to her that she had expressed some concern about leaving her harp in a hot car for multiple hours and that stopping back at our house to load it up would only add a small amount of time to the adventure while removing the need to worry about the harp. She thought that sounded quite reasonable and so we set out with three people in my car and four in Jen's, heading over to the local McDonald's to grab some drinks and such on the way out.
After we pulled through the drive-through, I got a call from Jen. Her driver's side window had fallen and couldn't get up, although it was making some remarkable noises while trying. I suggested that we drive back to my house and sort this out. Clearly, it might be possible to tape up her window with plastic or something, but it was high on the list of not very satisfactory solutions. I asked if I could call up our local mechanic and see if he could look at it and Jen said to go ahead. He was able to take the van in, so we dropped it off over there for repairs.
I was thinking that we could take my car and Gretchen's van up to Bristol and she could find a way to get to Jen's car when it was done, but Gretchen pointed out that her minivan would actually carry seven, which was the number of people that we needed to take, so I ended up driving her van up there with everyone in it, which was a far better plan than I had had in mind.
It was a miserably hot day at Bristol except when a breeze came through. The breezes were wonderful. Had they been constant, I would have been *much* cooler.
But everyone had fun running around, shopping, firing/throwing various weapons, and watching shows. I drank a *lot* of water. :)
My mechanic was able to fix the window, so Jen and the assorted Midkiffs were able to proceed home with a working window, which was a substantial improvement over the alternative.
And they have reported in as safely home, so we can all go to sleep now.
It was a fun couple of days. We'll have to do it again some time.
After we pulled through the drive-through, I got a call from Jen. Her driver's side window had fallen and couldn't get up, although it was making some remarkable noises while trying. I suggested that we drive back to my house and sort this out. Clearly, it might be possible to tape up her window with plastic or something, but it was high on the list of not very satisfactory solutions. I asked if I could call up our local mechanic and see if he could look at it and Jen said to go ahead. He was able to take the van in, so we dropped it off over there for repairs.
I was thinking that we could take my car and Gretchen's van up to Bristol and she could find a way to get to Jen's car when it was done, but Gretchen pointed out that her minivan would actually carry seven, which was the number of people that we needed to take, so I ended up driving her van up there with everyone in it, which was a far better plan than I had had in mind.
It was a miserably hot day at Bristol except when a breeze came through. The breezes were wonderful. Had they been constant, I would have been *much* cooler.
But everyone had fun running around, shopping, firing/throwing various weapons, and watching shows. I drank a *lot* of water. :)
My mechanic was able to fix the window, so Jen and the assorted Midkiffs were able to proceed home with a working window, which was a substantial improvement over the alternative.
And they have reported in as safely home, so we can all go to sleep now.
It was a fun couple of days. We'll have to do it again some time.