Longest Drive Ever!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of driving to Vancouver for shopping. When I say "I", I really mean it. I was the driver for our family trip. The reason for this is, my dad was taking a course in Vancouver for the week so we left him there, and my mom can't drive a long distance because she falls asleep while driving. So I drove down in the terrible snowy, icy weather on Friday morning. We left at 7am and arrived in Surrey at 12pm. FIVE HOURS! That's a long time to be in a car going to Surrey. So we shopped at Guilford Mall, Metrotown and Ikea; we saw friends and family like, Amy, Samantha and Vanna (plus some of my parents friends and the families who belong to Sam and Vanna), and we had a merry time as a family. Friday night I even got to see the new James Bond movie: Casino Royal. It was amazing! Not really like other Bond movies but a good movie in it's self. So we left at 12pm, into the awful road conditions, after eating brunch with Vanna and Uncle Butch and seeing there new house-in-progress. We made it to Hope by 3pm and then to Merritt by 6pm. We got 7Km outside of Merritt and had to turn around and go back because the Coq. was closed between Kamloops and Merritt. So we decided to pop in and see my Aunt Sue and visited for a while but we were itching to get home so we checked for alternative routes. We decided on the Old Merritt Highway. So after 2 more hours of snowy driving we made it home after 10 hours of travelling! Quite the eventful weekend and I now consider myself to be a pro winter driver.