A long drive to Charlottesville...

Hey there...

Yesterday was a long, but good day.  We got up, boarded the bus, and at 9:30am, started to drive out of the parking lot of the Super 8 in Hazard, Kentucky when the bus stalled.  And then upon starting, stalling again.  And again.  And again.  So our amazing driver, Scott, got out and gazed into the engine in the back of the bus...

In his attempts to fix the problem, he ended up having to "call the cavalry" as he put it and in a few minutes, a mechanic down the road showed up with his truck o'tools.  Long story short, they had to fix a sensor that had gone bad.  Normally a 15 minute job, but a piece of the old sensor fell into somewhere it shouldn't have fallen (can you tell I don't know too much about engines) and they had to open the oil pan to get it out.  Which meant draining the bus's 10 gallons of oil, retrieving the little rogue, replacing the pan, refilling the oil, and getting rolling again...6 hours later.

:)

But we all made the best of it.  Chatting and internetting and cell phoning.  The time actually flew by.  And then poor Scott had to drive through the east Kentucky and West Virginia mountains in the dark and rain.  But he was a champ and got us to Charlottesville safe and sound by 11:00PM.

We slept quickly and got up and did a school matinee for about 1,000 students at The Paramount Theater  in the historic downtown area.  It's so beautiful.  Looking forward to checking it out some more before tonight's show.

Hope all are well!
O.