Our trip home and Brett's run in with the LA state troopers!

Well we drove home last night to Haynesville, LA, got in about 1:30am. This will be our final trip home, from now on everyone will have to come see us! Just Joking, just still a little perturbed! Between Minden and Homer (about 30 miles from our destination), Brett got not 1 but 2 tickets. The first was for following behind another car too closely, WHAT you can get a ticket for that? Then about 2 miles down the road another trooper felt the need to pull us over for speeding, which we were not. The trooper claimed we were doing 67 in a 55 zone, but who in their right mind would speed with the possiblity of a cop being just behind you after being stopped for a ticket? The officer said that it might be due to the big tires and his speedometer might not be calibrated, but did he let us off, Heck NO! So when we finally got to Haynesville, Bella was wide awake due to the pretty Blue lights she got to see twice. She finally went to sleep about 3am, Mom is exhausted! Well, I've decided Brett will fight both tickets, b/c the first one is subjective (we didn't think we were following too close and there is no objective measurement of how close we were following, so it's a stupid reason to give someone a ticket) and the second one is definitely argueable in court. I would love to act as a defense attorney for Brett, but I don't think they do that for traffic citations, too bad. I'll just give Brett all the right things to say! So our trip has turned out to be quite expensive already, despite the falling diesel prices. Brett's birthday is tomorrow and he will not get a present b/c his birthday money is going to the department of public safety and transportation of LA. We talked to our home owner's insurance company and they are giving us pennies compared to the amount we need to fix the roof and interior walls. We now have to get a quote for the repairs and send it in to see if they will compensate us more for the damage. I've been hearing this is pretty normal for everybody, no one seems to get what is due them. Well till next time......................