"That was a MEAN truck"

This past weekend, we had quite an eventful weekend. Megan's Nana and Papa came to visit, and brought her great grandmother Lele along for the weekend. Papa and Chris had a project to (finally) hang our television on the wall above the fireplace. We have had it over a year, and had decided to go with a wall mount to free up space to create a bar and give us more kitchen space.

This was already a large project, since it involved running electrical wire, adding outlets, moving the cable, and putting the antennae in the attic. Megan was a little confused when she could hear her daddy in the attic (or his voice coming from the fireplace). She was adorable and shouted "hi Daddy" at least twice into the fireplace. I don't think she really understood where he was, but the fireplace DID answer her.

Then, on Saturday afternoon the chaos took a turn for the worse when Megan and Nana and I went to the store. We were happily sitting at a stoplight when a '95 GMC truck rather plowed into the back of us (driving the nice little PRIUS) and then launched us like a pool ball into the car in front of us.

Luckily, we were all ok -- just a little bruised and shook up. Megan was mostly just scared and upset from the suddenness of it all, and cried.

When I got out and checked on her, she calmed down, turned around in her carseat and looked out the back window, and said "That is a MEAN truck..." It was so cute it was comic.

When the police and fireman arrived to make sure we were all ok, she just kept excitedly saying "fire truck! fire truck!!" The firemen invited her down to the station, and told her that was a better way to get to see a fire truck than this!

I must say that the PRIUS impressed me. The impact virtually caved in the whole front of the truck, but the PRIUS escaped with relatively minor damage. A broken tail light, and dented fender and rear trunk was really the brunt of the damage. A little work has to be done to the front from the secondary impact, but all in all the Prius gets an A+ for this outing...

Of course, Daddy and Papa had to stop their project and come check on all of us, so the television project stretched into the late evening. BUT there is now a working TV hung on the wall.