A Tender Mercy!!!!

I know this picture doesn't look like much, but I have to tell you our crazy story that happened on our way to Carlsbad, CA for our family vacation!!!! Our gas gauge is not working on our Denali. We haven't taken it in to get fixed yet. I had the "pleasure" of discovering it doesn't work properly about 2 months ago with a car full of kids and no husband. Fortunately we were spared in that situation by being next to a gas station when we ran out....anyway..... back to this story. A couple of times in our travel, I would mention the thought of needing gas. Scott's reply was always, ya we probably should stop, but he didn't. Finally his response was "ya we probably should, I will at the next stop." 30 miles later, still no place to stop!! Up and down we went in the hills when finally, the car dies!!! No power steering, nothing....... then, we see a sign as we start to drift down hill, "Gas one mile"!! Oh my can we do it??? Down, down, down the hill we go!! We see the gas station at the end of the hill, but can we make it? Then we realize that there is a stop light also and the end of the hill, and it is red. But if we stop, we won't make it to the gas station. We get closer to see there are no on coming cars, roll through the stop sign and right into the gas station in front of a gas pump!!!!! Yeah! We did it!!!! What a great start to our family vacation and a tender mercy blessed by the Big Guy!!!! Thank you!!! The picture was suppose to be of the gas station that we filled up at, but my camera was too slow as we passed it on our way home!!!! (or does that mean that my husband drives too fast!! :))