The rest of the story

So here's the last of the story of our trip to Kelowna....
We got up early Sunday morning to head home, so we would get home at a decent hour. We made pretty good time, even though the roads weren't great....until Valemont. About 1/2 hr. past Valemont, there was a long line up of cars stopped on the highway. Someone in front of us was turning around, so we rolled down our window to see what was up. Turns out there was a double fatality, and the highway was going to be shut down for abut 3 hrs. Right away, I thought we should turn around and go back to Valemont to get a room for the night. Art decided to get out and walk up a bit to see if he could get some more information. While we were talking, I watched 3 different people get out of their vehicles and bite it, because the road was a sheet of ice! Art carefully walked a bit further ahead and spoke with some truckers...they informed us that the RCMP had just radioed up, and highway was going to be closed for 8-10 hrs. Also, there was about 10 miles of cars stopped in front of us! Right away, we turned around and headed to Valemont. One our way back, we noticed that they had set up a highway worker about 10 miles back, and were telling people the road was closed, and more people were turning around behind us. We called ahead and found 1 room at a hotel, but when we drove up and saw the hotel, we though we'd see if we could find something else....it definitely left a little to be desired! So, I walked into the Super 8, and we got the last room there! Thank you, God!
The funny thing about the trip, though, is that I had been asking the Lord to see a moose.... When we walked into the lobby of the hotel, this is what I saw....

Not exactly the moose I was expecting to see, but I thanked the Lord, none the less... to me, it was a reminder that He has everything worked out. Another cool thing was that Art had been saying the whole drive that he would love to go in a hot tub that night. Guess what we did when we got to the hotel? Yup...go to the hot tub! Again, not what we were necessarily expecting, but so cool to see God look after both our needs (can you IMAGINE spending an extra 10 hrs. in a car on the highway not moving, and it being -20C outside with 4 kids?!), and our wants! To me, the favor of the Lord was written all over our drive home! Art also went to A&W to get some dinner for us, and he ordered and sat down to wait for his food, and then they announced that they were out of food (except chicken strips!). Crazy!!

We spent the night, got up early, and headed home. It was definitely nice to nap that afternoon, in our own beds! Thanks, Lord, for safety on the scary, slippery roads!