Bridges & Stoplights

After the water we made our trek across town. Got close to the first bridge and ran into completely stopped traffic. Finally after a while we got to where we could see that the bridge was closed, then saw that it was closed b/c a car had driven off of it into the river and they had a crane and people looking for it.

We passed that bridge and went to the next one....and it was closed. Went to the next one and they had it going just one way and it was the wrong way. At this point we had exhausted our choice of bridges across the river we wanted and had to go towards a bridge across another river to another town. Then the roads were closed and traffic was crazy. Finally we got to an open bridge that crossed the wrong river but at least we were crossing a river.

2 hours to make a 30 minute drive, we get where we're going and we get a phone call that there are protests downtown and they're closing the bridges....no wonder all the bridges were closed and the roads downtown were all weird with all kinds of traffic!!!

So then to come home we had to drive all the way to an even farther bridge, along with the rest of the world, because they must have forgotten to close that one.

And, apparently, they have new traffic light budget for 2008 because they are pretty much putting up traffic lights at every intersection. BUT none of them are turned on, they're just put up and they make the traffic 10 times worse than before. Overall we spent 5 hours in the car today b/c of bridges and stoplights.