A Perfect Storm...or is it a perfect traffic jam?

We thought it would be fun to attend a missionary reunion...but we had NO idea what we were getting in to! Ordinarily, it would take us maybe 2 1/2 hours to reach the reunion location. We were scheduled to work with the school groups until 2:30 which left us plenty of time to drive to the reunion which started at 6:30.

Then we started hearing on the radio that people living in our area who planned to travel to the reunion location should allow 4 hours of travel time! The perfect 'travel' storm was in place. It was a combination of road construction, Friday afternoon commuter traffic, and an in-state rivalry football game.

Fortunately we were able to leave work 20 half an hour earlier than we expected, so we were able to arrive in time, in spite of traffic moving at a crawl for many miles.

Watching the school flags flying from cars around us on the freeway reminded us of when we lived in West Virginia on days when WVU was playing. Cars would fly past us on the freeway going north to Morgantown with flags whipping in the wind. It was a good day to stay OFF the freeway actually.

In any case, we made it to our reunion and enjoyed visiting with old friends.













One of the highlights, other than the old friends, was a fancy cake that was on the refreshment table. We laughed when we saw it, because it just epitomized some of our West Virginia experiences.



We hope to be able to attend future reunions, but would not mind if it was not held in the same time and place as a big rivalry game creating a traffic jam.