Summer 2012 - Stop Over in Danbury

Wednesday
We left about 9:00 this morning on our way to Boston.  We are spending the night in Danbury, CT as that is about 5 1/2 hours from College Park.  We saw the New York City skyline as we drove up the interstate. I was surprised what a thrill that was to me.  Many many many tall buildings.  Oh my goodness, New Jersey does have toll roads!!!  Or is it New York.  I don't even know what state we were in, but we paid over $50 in tolls!!!  We crossed the George Washington Bridge and hit a major traffic jam.  It took us over 2 hours to go 1.4 miles!!!!
Well, here's the funny story.  Before we got into the jam, I told Mel that I need to take a restroom break.  We couldn't find a place to pull over.  As we were in the jam, Mel decided he need a restroom break, as did Pat.  Well, Pat was miserable and reminded me of a little boy moving his legs in desperation to go potty.  After a while, Mel said, Sue, come take over driving.  I'm going to go to that Sherwin Williams to the bathroom.  Out of the car he went.  Now we are on a 6 lane highway.  I climbed out and hurried around and into the driver's seat.  Pat said, I hope he took his phone.  I said, he didn't.  Well, traffic began to move and we began to get worried.  We didn't know whether we should move with traffice (we were in the middle lane and couldn't have gotten over if we wanted to!) or try to not move or what!  Well, it turned out we had no need to worry.  We only moved about 10 yards.  He finally came running back down the highway.  I jumped out and ran around to the back and he got back in the driver's seat. He had found a park with a bathroom.  We were there so long, we could all have gone to the the park, but we were afraid of being left in New Jersey!
FINALLY, we got off at our exit and found a little gas station that had a Porta Potty.  Pat jumped out and ran into it.  The rest of us waited until we got to a little store with a real restroom.  It's amazing how important  access to a bathroom becomes!  Repeat after me - NEVER drink a diet coke when in or near New York or New Jersey traffic.
So now, here we are at our hotel in Danbury.  I changed into my swimsuit to take advantage of the pool.  There were two families in the pool and it was so small that it was standing room only.  I came back to the room and took a shower and here I am in bed -blogging.
It was a tiring day, but being with my siblings is wonderful.  Ray keeps a positive attitude.  I like being around him and I want to be more like him.  Of course, I've spent my whole life wanting to be more like him!!