Every good story has a happy ending.... we must not be at the end of ours yet.

If our bus saga was a movie we would be at the sad fake ending where everyone loses hope and thinks all is lost, the part where the hero seems as if he is out of the race... then BAM he recovers and saves the day!!  The bus would be superman and the engine on fire would be kryptonite?  Okay well that analogy doesn't work and frankly makes no sense, so here is the story.  Our lovely Canadian friend, Jill, left us Saturday morning to embark upon what she thought would be a relaxing adventure (first mistake there is no such thing as a "relaxing" adventure).  She hopped aboard the Amtrak where she met an intriguing baggage handler and departed for Oregon.  From there she hitched a ride to Medford, OR ( I would just like to take a moment and comment on how many hitchhikers there are in OR, I mean when I was there I saw at least one brave and EXTREMELY trusting hitchhiker for every mile of highway) (another quick note she didnt actually hitchhike, she knew the person, my aside was just a random bit of information, now with my apologies back to the story at hand).  She was able to pick up the bus yesterday and spent a comfortable evening sleeping on the bus, probably not in one of the kennels, she is a very adventurous woman, but Im pretty sure she wouldnt sleep in a kennel, I hope?  After a good nights rest she put on her bus drivers hat and headed on back to Puyallup, WA.   At around 11am this morning we got an exciting call from our brave little trucker... here is my reenactment... ahem...  FLAMES, FLAMES, FLAMES, THERE ARE FLAMES COMING FROM THE BUS, FIRE!!! what Jill I cant understand you..... FIRE, FLAMES, BUS ON FIRE! This reenactment is BASED on actual events:)  Luckily Jill was at the right place at the right time as a wonderful man who just happened to be a volunteer fireman was passing by our damsel in distress and helped save the day! The firemen were able to put out the fire, the police helped tow our bus to a wrecking yard and Jill saved the contents of the bus!! YAY!!!!  There was some bad news however, (cue the violins) our precious bus was unable to be saved, he was declared dead at the scene! NOOOOOO!!! This was truly devastating after so much work and effort to save that guy, come on!!! We would just like to say thank you everyone for your support and help, but don't count us out for we are not at the end of our story just yet:)