We left saturday morning for Toronto. Tank full of gas, $30 in the bank, $25 in my pocket. Cooler filled with sandwiches and drinks. I had no idea how were were going to manage to get gas for the next 10 days with no money.... Lord will provide a way I suppose.

We made reasonably good time, arrived at the brother-in-law's place after a somewhat pleasant drive with 1 pit-stop to pee and another for lunch. Left at 8, got there at about 2. Rang the bell, and no one was home. Go figure. I don't begrudge him at all. He was at the hospital, having some blood work done on the baby as she was jaundiced.. Don't worry, baby's fine. But knowing we were coming down that day, and would be arriving between 1 and 3, you'd think he would've called to say hey, we're at the hospital, or something, but no, thought never crossed his mind. We even talked to him the night before and it was all a go. He wanted us to stay at his place for the night rather than drive to my in-laws, but plans were already firm with my inlaws for dinner, so we declined the invitation.

Anwway, after much deliberating and trying to figure something out, we drove to the hospital to meet the baby, and then we drove him and his family home (they have no car). We arrived back at their place at a little after 4 to which my sister-in-law promptly announced that she had to log on to the internet and webchat with her parents to introduce the baby right at that monent. I was dumbfounded, we just drove 6 hours to see the baby, arrived to an empty house, met them somewhere else and drive them home and now this???? WTF is wrong with them??? whatever, so he then asks while she's upstairs, what time are you leaving? are you sure you can't stay? when we said we'd be leaving in about 20 min so that we can drive to their parent's place (my inlaws) about 45-60 min away, he was crestfallen, "but you just got here" to which I bit my tongue when I wanted to say "no, we didn't just get here, we got here 3 hours ago you twit" But I didn't, just to keep the peace.... I just shrugged and mumbled, well, you know your mother, she's got dinner planned and you know what'll happen if we don't show up.... His wife, when she finally came down, also said the same thing to which I repeated, blah blah blah

Ain't family grand