A dream of having James' Dad's Renault is to be able to go for long drives in it and fun adventures. Today we headed out to Newport for a family lunch and James wanted to take the Renault to show Aunty Julie and Aunty Megan. The kids were excited to go for a long drive in the car and so was James. I was a bit nervous and wondered if we should take 2 cars just incase something happened. The car hadn't really been driving such a long way and we were on church that night so needed to be back in time. But James insisted that all would be fine and we wouldn't need to have 2 cars.
The drive there was a great. The kids loved the bouncy seats (they don't make them that way anymore) and it was just a cute drive. The aunty's loved looking at the car and the uncles too.
It came to 1pm and we said bye the headed back home. A few minutes down the road, the car started coughing. Not too sure about what it was we pushed on. James fiddled with a few things but was very unsure of why it was doing that. I asked if it needed petrol but the fuel gauge said that it had enough so nope, not sure why. He stopped and started it again and it ran ok for a shot time but then we came to a hill and it struggled again. Heading downhill it wasn't sounding good. We pulled over on the side of the road and got out. Oh dear. The car wasn't very happy, James was very stressed and the kids were upset and asking many questions about what are we going to do? Why did this happen? James and I also needed to work out how to get back for church.
We came up with a plan. We managed to get the car down a side street and parked it on the side of the road. James called an Uber to get him back so he could open church and start band practice (he was leading this week). The kids and I sat on the side of the road while we waited for Poppy to get our red car and come to pick us up. Fortunately I had some games in the bag that I took to lunch so I pulled them out and we played totally gross on the side of the road. The kids then wanted to pick flowers from along the side of the road so we picked some flowers to give to Nana to say thank you to her and Poppy for picking us up.
A huge thanks to Poppy for coming to get us! We made it back home, quickly got some things and arrived at church so that I could help sing with the band. After church James and Dad headed back out to get some petrol and fill up the Renault tank. Turns out that you can't trust old fuel gauges like you can new ones. It had run out of petrol. It helped to get the car back home but it wasn't very happy sounding apparently so back to the car shop it goes to get looked at again and hopefully fix it up.
Anyway, making memories on the side of the road. That spot will forever be mentioned 'remember when the Renault stopped working here?'
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