And, I hope to never see it again.....

When you are driving home from visiting your wonderful family

in the northern part of the state

(i.e. Chicago)

and you are on the interstate, about 10 miles from home

--almost there, almost there--

the last thing you want to look up and see on your

Distance-To-Empty gage is this:

Whoa.

It was un-be-lie-vable.

We were gripping, let me tell you.

I prayed.

Colin prayed.

I prayed again.

God answered.

Thank you, Jesus!!

We made it to a gas station

(after driving on ZERO miles to empty

for approximately two miles)

in the nick of time.

And, don't think we didn't know we were cutting it close--our silly little DTE gage went from

13 miles

to eight miles

to five miles

to zero miles

in about two miles distance. EEK!

We'll make sure not to rely on that little gage so heavily in the future....