We decided to go on vacation down in Floridafor about 10 days after Christmas. Jessica has family that lives on Marco Island and we headed down Christmas Night. The drive started off pretty good leaving only about 30 or 45 minutes later than we planned. Not bad. Everything flowed smoothly until just after the Florida border. I was driving and the engine started heating up. I took an exit immediately and it was actually an entrance to another interstate. On the way to the first exit it got to hot so I pulled over. The belt was off and stretched out. After unloading half of the trunk I got to the tools and put the belt back on. The belt came off immediately after starting the car, so we drove very slowly to the exit. Jessica's parents weren't far behind us so they got off and went to the town to see what was there. After about two miles at 25 MPH we had to stop and let it cool. Three stops later a female sheriff's deputy pulled up behind us. She wasn't real happy because Elle's car seat was covered and she thought we didn't have a seat for her. Then Jessica's parents pulled up behind her. Cops don't like that a whole lot either. She escorted us to the next stop at a NAPA store and a city police officer met us (also a female). The girls couldn't help but laugh at them. On cop had pink hand cuffs and went on about how she loved the other's ear piece. We had to go to a body shop that was another couple miles. We made it most of the way there and only had a hill left to go over when the car died. After a jump in the middle of the road we barely made it over the hill. Jessica got terribly excited because we were going to get to run a red light, but it turned green right before we went through it. It turned out that the tension pulley had broken, so we had to get it replaced and get a new belt. The body shop had some really neat dogs the we played with while they fixed the car. Three and a half hours later we got back on the road. There weren't any more problems from that point. We made it all the way to Naples and had lunch with Alison's fiance Aaron. Then we finished the drive to Marco.
