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Celebrating at the Mavs Parade just seemed like a no-brainer for me when the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Championship.  Afterall, I am a Dallas-born girl!  And have watched the Mavs year-after-year, playoff-loss after playoff-loss, late-night Pacific time game-after-game…cheering loud from the comfort of my home!  This playoff season was especially fun to watch and nail-biting at the same time – especially those games against the Miami Heat.  I was elated to see them win!! 

Derek and Jacob were at Scout Camp, but I was determined that I would take my little boys and join the 250,000 projected people and cheer for my Mavs.  We bought t-shirts and dressed in blue!  Luckily, my across-the-street neighbor Lyn wanted to take her two youngest boys too, so we were glad to be able to carpool (she drove).  My brother offered his parking garage downtown which would save us a lot of hassle (thank you, Mark!).  We decided to leave at 7 am for the 10 am parade with drinks, snacks and playing cards to keep the boys occupied.

But then we had a little "bump" in the road…

 
This car hit us from behind, causing us to hit the car in front of us…on the Dallas North Tollway.  Not fun.  As most of you know, I've been in plenty of car accidents (8, to be exact) – but Lyn and her boys + my boys had NEVER been in one, so you can imagine how traumatic it was.  Being rear-ended (hard!) without warning is NO FUN.  After getting everyone's information and wating for the Trooper to fill out his report (the Hyundai was not driveable and Lyn's Expedition has since been declared totaled because it bent the frame), we decided to still try to make it to the parade.  Lemonade out of lemons!

Well, all 200,000 people got there about 5 minutes before we did, so it was a little hard to find a spot that was good.  But thankfully we were able to find a shady spot (since it was reaching the mid-90s at this point) in front of a building.  It was impossible for the kids to see much, since we were about 8 people deep, but my camera was able to catch some faces.  And overall, it was a fun atmosphere.  NEXT time though, I will enjoy the parade from the luxury of my couch, I do believe.

But – I love saying that we DID IT!  We celebrated – we cheered – and we survived it after a car crash, with 4 children!  That's an accomplishment…