Stuck on a New Year

It was my mum’s idea to take a trip to our hometown for the New Year, dad suggested we take the family car, my brother David volunteered to clean it, I was in charge of the food and drinks, and no one could have seen our New Year gift coming.

The plan was to set out on the 31st  and other relatives thought it was a good idea to  start the new year as a family so they decided to meet us at the family house.

I was excited to see all my childhood friends and cousins, so we could talk about life in the boarding house.

Even though we were supposed to wake up at dawn, someone forgot to set the alarm clock so we spent the entire morning looking for things and packing the little things we could.

We set out around 11 a.m., and spent about three hours in traffic, dad’s jokes helped us to forget about the delay.  At 3:00p.m. the car was moving like a snail.

I was so tired I wished I could alight and walk, I could see David was restless too because he sta