Happy Halloween :S the story of how the bug got squished

So today we went up to my in-laws. My brother-in-law was having a birthday bash, and mom and dad Bingham made dinner. It was a yummy stuffed pumpkin (something I never knew existed till I married Kade). We ate at mom and dad’s and then headed up to Shila and Tony's house for cake with the rest of his family. We had a fun evening. After we decided we would go and visit one of Kade's friends that live up there.

It was one of those REALLY dark nights. It had been raining, so the moon and stars were behind a sheet of clouds, and you could see the reflection of puddles on the ground. Kade saw a kitten in the road and dodged it...we were laughing about how he had really good reflexes. Not a minute later we both saw breath in the air, by then it was to late, we had come across a herd of cows on the road. Kade did an amazing job, he dodged about 4 cows and slowed down enough that when we finally hit one, and we were going slow enough that it didn't hurt either of us. We were traveling north and had knocked the cow into the other lane. We got out of the car to look at the damage. My poor beetle was smashed pretty good, and the cow was lying in the other lane moaning. We got back into the car and moved it to the side of the road with our flashers on.

We saw headlights! Coming the other way! The car was driving so fast. We tried to honk our horn to warn her to slow down, or something. The horn wasn't working due to the accident, so Kade stepped outta the car to wave her down. She was going so fast it didn't make a difference what we did. She hit the cow that we hit and jumped the car about 5 feet in the air. Her car did 180 when it landed; she hit 2 more cows and busted their legs before she smashed into a fence post. We thought she was going to be in really bad shape.

Kade and I ran down to see if she was okay. Luckily for everyone no one got injured except for the cattle. We finally got a neighbor to come out and park his truck on the road so that no one else would hit any cows. We were there for about 3 hours trying to figure out if it was open or closed range, what farmer owned the cows, and if the pregnant lady was really okay! LOL, They finally found the farmer and the police told us it was closed range. So 3 cows and 2 totaled cars latter...we finally got to make our way home in Kade's parent's van.

The police told us that if the roads hadn't been wet that the other car's tires would have grabbed better and her car would have flipped over. We also know that if we hadn't hit the cow first the young lady would have hit a herd of 40 cows going really fast, and that could have been deadly. We had just turned on the road and had not gotten up to speed on the highway, so we were able to really slow down. We are also really grateful because our airbags didn't go off. With that accident it would have done more harm than good.

All is good other than we have one less vehicle to drive: D that was our Happy Halloween.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES!