How sweet it is...



to be off on a Monday! I'm relaxing, sitting outside enjoying this beautiful 80 plus degree weather and sipping tea. It's quiet, everyone's gone to work and school and the neighborhood is very still. I still awoke around 7:00 a.m. and decided to logon and do blogging updates, answer emails, etc.



Yesterday, we went to visit my in-laws in Murrieta and my God, the weather was so fabulous - plus 90 degree temps - I didn't want to return home! We attempted to go to Benihana's for an early dinner, but were thwarted by the dead stopped traffic on I-15 northbound. We inched our way to the nearest exit and forty minutes later, exited the freeway and jumped on the southbound route to Temecula.



We never knew why we were dead stopped. As we inched along, we could see the traffic ahead snaking its way through the hills and passed many a stranded motorist, with hood raised and steam billowing. I felt very bad for the motorists because I knew help was not imminent. As it was, creative drivers (to put it nicely) were driving the shoulder at plus 45 miles per hour, while others backed out of the on ramps!!



Once we arrived in Temecula we dined at Black Angus and had a very nice, relaxing, and air conditioned birthday celebration. My FIL seemed very happy, and why shouldn't he, it's his 82nd birthday today! He had a smashing appetite, too! LOL



So, is it just me, or are we all usually in a hurry? Don't we all have someplace to be, at a specific time? So, if this is true and you were stuck in the traffic predicament I just described, would you have waited or executed one of the manuevers I described?