Goldman Reunion Part 2: Not even there yet

I got off work at noon today, we were on the road by 2, my goal was 1:30 but can't complain!

Off to Jellystone! We have to make a stop in Brookhaven at my parents to drop of Mickelson (our dog, who will be camping out with my parents dogs while we are away) , then to Madison, MS drop of Carly (our cousin that stayed with us this week to help Matt with the kids! She's been great!), and finally to Jellystone!

Or at least that was the plan....

We did have our first stop in Brookhaven, though it was on the side of the road a few exits early as our stuff on top of the car was spilling into the interstate!

We had an ice chest, stroller, wagon, and Mattie Anne's bike all tied down and we made it fine for over 90 miles just fine...

But then the wagon came out into the middle of I 55, with that all the other stuff came tumbling off the side but still within the strap. We made it to the side of the interstate quickly and thank God there wasn't anyone behind us!

We had a nice state trooper that helped us out, a little glimpse of his car in a pic below.

The wagon survived, we think ....

The ice chest survived with surprisingly low spillage of food! A cool whip container with grilled chicken was sitting unharmed on the side of the road! I should have taken more pictures but prob not the best thing for my marriage!

The stroller made it out with the least damage!

But Mattie Anne's bike didn't make it! There is a picture below as well.

This happened at exit 38, we were able to get everything back into the car or re-tied to make it to exit 41 which is the exit my Mom works a mile from. There we (Matt) did a little more rearranging, dropped off a box with my mom and said a tear-filled farewell to the bike with promises to purchase a new one soon!

We then made it to my parent's house off of exit 48 where we successfully completed our first planned stop, resecured the top load with some loaners from my dad, got a bottle for Evans were back on the road!

Currently we are only a few miles from Carly's! We have added another planned stop for Wal-Mart before heading off to Jellystone, for a pink Barbie bike!

See some pics below of only our first few hours of Safley vacation!