Collingsworth concert, chicken & noodles, coconut pie and CRASH!

I was so looking forward to our girls night out on Friday night. Mom kept my kids, Jonathan was off singing at the ICHA indoor camp, and I was going to Jonathan Byrd's with a friend to hear the Collingsworth family!

My friend, Amy Shearer, arrived at my house shortly after 6pm. (She had been waiting on her husband to get home from out of town so he could keep their girls!) She said she would drive, but NO, I insisted that it was my turn!!!! :)

We took off up the interstate and it was a dark and rainy Friday evening. We chatted the entire way and quickly made it to our exit. We had stopped at the stoplight just in front of Jonathan Byrd's and had about 20 minutes to spare before the meal was to begin. I was turned looking at Amy, running my mouth as usual, when all of a sudden.....WHAM!!!!! Someone rear-ended us! It sounded like a bomb went off in the car. I could just imagine the entire back end being caved in and having to call and explain it to Jonathan! I was very fortunate and did not hit the car in front of me. Instead, I mashed down even harder on my brakes! My purse went sailing to the floor, was not zipped up and the entire contents spilled!

The light turned green, we signaled and pulled over to survey the damage and the lady followed us. She was very apologetic and wanted to make sure Amy and I were okay! There was minimal damage to my vehicle, but hers was another story! (She also said she had just hit a deer last week!) I didn't know if there was really enough damage to call the cops.

I tried calling Jonathan to see if we should call the police, he was on the platform getting ready to sing so luckily, he didn't get the message! (That might have caused him to lose his concentration and mess up a tad!) :) I ended up getting ahold of dear ole dad and he said, "Yes, call the police!" We did....and 40 long minutes later, they arrived!

After all that waiting, the man said there wasn't enough damage to even fill out an accident report!!! Can you believe that?! It took him forever to fill out the information exchange form!

I forgot to mention that during all of this, Amy tried to phone several people from our church, that were already at the Collingsworth concert. She wanted to make sure they knew we were okay, and let them know why we were running late and to please save us some food! Well, none of them had their cell phones where they could hear it!

We finally arrived at the concert, just in time to get in line and fill our plates with yummy food! Even though we were a bit shaken up, it didn't stop us from filling our tummies!

The concert was great and we enjoyed an entire evening of hearing just the Collingsworth family!

(Jonathan left the camp as soon as he was done singing, showed up at Jonathan Byrd's, got in for free, AND had a much better seat than we did!) What a weasel... He must have buttered up Bro. Hood good because he gave him a seat at his table! So, I tossed him the camera during intermission! (I took Mom's new camera along and fell in love!) Now I know what to put on my Christmas list!!!!