Arriving for Christmas

The trip to Beth's could have been a tame version of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. We spent three days in transit. The final leg is always done with a stop at Cabela's in Post Falls. The rest usually involves a stop at the grocery store but this time we needed to go to get some baby snow boots and a walker in Sandpoint. The only 'must' is to arrive at Beth's before dusk. And dusk comes by 4:00 p.m. They live in a wildlife corridor, and the animals are always looking for food from dusk until morning. It's easy to hit them. I found that honking will help get them off the road but they are unpredictable in their approaches to crossing the road. We got there at 3:15. There were five people there already. We spent Christmas with them. It was good to be there on Christmas again. We had only been there once before on Christmas morning. Our two other siblings and their families were supposed to start caravaning up to Idaho on the morning of the 27th.