Eventful Saturday

Daddy is finally back from California. We drove to the airport to fetch daddy on Saturday morning. Daddy was completely exhausted from his trip, so we rested for a few hours at home before going to Uncle Garret's place for barbecue. Mommy volunteered to drive to Uncle Garret's place since she knew that daddy did not sleep very well on the plane. However, in the end, daddy insisted that he should take on the wheels since he is back. Fortunately, it was daddy who drove the car because something happened on our way to Uncle Garret's place. Just before we made a turn into a small road, mommy heard an unusual sound. At first, mommy did not suspect anything amiss because she thought that the car must have just run over something. However, just as daddy was maneuvering through the turn, he suddenly realized that the steering wheel had lost its power steering. The car suddenly weighed like a ton and he had difficulties completing the turn that he was making at the junction. At first, he thought that he would hit the incoming car, but fortunately, he managed to navigate the turn safely. Obviously, something must have happened to the car as it was not behaving normally, Anyway, we still hobbled our way to Uncle Garret's place since we were already in the vicinity. We decided to fill our stomach first before taking a look at the car. As usual, Sheri likes to climb up and down the stairs. Daddy really has to hold on to the little girl in case she falls down the stairs. With her newfound mobility, our little girl does not like to be held or carried anymore. She prefers to wander around on her own.

Uncle Garret and Auntie Sandra prepared so much yummy food that we could not resist indulging ourselves first. While Uncle Garret was busy grilling the chickens and the ribs, Sheri had some fun running around in the yard. We had barbecued ribs and chicken, shrimp salad, potato salad, strawberries cocktail, corns , ice cream cake and lots more food, which mommy could not remember. Anyway, all of them were finger-licking good. We did not take many pictures partly because our hands were too busy feeding our mouths. Our little Sheri was completely fascinated by the turtles in Uncle Garret's house. Auntie Sandra also has some bunnies in the house, but they were too shy to come out of their favourite hunt. Our little girl was very curious about the Auntie Mary's sunglasses.

Since daddy is back, he shall take over the task of feeding our little girl.

After satisfying our stomach, daddy decided to take a look at the car. At first, he thought that the steering fluid in the car might have run low, but it did not seem to be so when he opened up the bonnet. After discussing with Uncle Garret, we decided to drive to one of the repair shops that is in the vicinity. Even though the shop was already closed by the time we reached there, the mechanic still helped us check out the car. He found out that the steering belt had snapped and he seriously advised us not to drive the car any further as it may rip off the other belt, which may cause the engine to overheat. We were left with 2 options. We could either leave the car there for him to change the belt on Tuesday or arranged for someone to tow the car to our usual mechanic. After much consideration, we decided to leave the car with him. Frankly speaking, we were very surprised to find that such problems could arise as we regularly send the car for servicing. Obviously, the mechanic did not do a good job as we feel that he should have noticed that the belt must have worn off and advised us to change it during our last service appointment, which was just 3 months ago.
Anyway, mommy really has to count her blessing that this incident only happened when daddy was around and he was driving the car on local roads. Mommy could not imagine what would have happened if the belt were to snap a few hours earlier when mommy was driving the car at high speed on the highway to fetch daddy from the airport. I must really thank god that all of us are safe and sound.