If It's Not One Thing, It's Ten Others...

The kids and I are still in Albuquerque. We've been in New Mexico since last Wednesday night. It's kind of a long story (aren't they all?). Our MDX was having a little trouble. It would shake as it shifted from 1st to 2nd gear...we took it to the Honda dealership in Amarillo, they said it was probably the transmission and told us that only an Acura dealership could fix it. The nearest dealership was in
Albuquerque so we decided to take it there. They told us that if we had it in by Thursday morning it could be ready by Monday morning. We were headed to Family Camp at Bluehaven in Las Vegas, NM so we decided to drive it to Alb. They were going to give us a rental and we could spend the night at Brad's parents. We took it on Thursday, they called us Thursday afternoon and said it was fixed. They said it was crack on the engine block. Okay, whatever. We picked it up and driving back out to Brad's parents that night after the steer show (another post, another time), it did the shake thing again. So we took it back in on Friday morning and they said that, in fact, it was the transmission. No big deal except that it meant they couldn't get the part until Monday and it won't be fixed until this afternoon. I drove back to Albuquerque on Sunday while Brad went back to Amarillo with our Children's Minister from church. Hopefully, I'll be back in Amarillo tonight. We'll see. It's been fun for Eli and Phoebe to get to spend a little time with their grandparents. That's why the lapse in blogging.