Help Me W.A.N.D.A.

Help! Help! Me W.A.N.D.A.!

Our phones have a GPS system. It really is such a neat feature and we actually use it. A lot.

W.A.N.D.A. as 'she' is called has helped us reach many destinations. All we have to do is type in the location, either the address or the name, and she finds it for us, and then tells us step by step how to get there.

She is the kind of 'gal' that interrupts the conversation, and in her all knowing voice announces to, "proceed .5 miles and turn left", or "You are now off track" and then immediately announces that you need to "Make a 'U' turn", and as soon as your 'U' turn has been completed, she happily announces that 'you are now on track'.

'She' knows where everything is.

In fact, the very first time we used W.A.N.D.A., she really saved us. We were up in SLC for the day, watching Jack while Aly was really sick and in the hospital. Cal, Jack and I all got in the car and were headed to McDonalds, Jack's choice. He wanted a McDonalds that had a play place. Easy enough we thought, they are all over the place, and don't all of them have a play place?

Nope. Not all of them.

Ol' W.A.N.D.A. took us to at least three McDonald's that did not have a play place. Three. I was so happy that she knew where more than three were. This is when she got her name. Cal named her. We decided that since she had such a big role in that day, and especially that outing, that she needed a name.

Her name? Well, Cal says he was acting like a politician and inventing the acronym first, then searching for words that fit with it, when he came up with this...

Worldwide And National Directional Assistant.

The other night, we were headed off to watch T.J.'s football game. After stopping for hot coco and a snack, we were on our way. I let W.A.N.D.A. know where we were going and as soon as she got the info, she was letting us know to 'veer left to enter the freeway'.

We exited just as she instructed and headed down a long, dark, cold and scary road. Just as I was starting to question W.A.N.D.A.'s instructions, Cal said, "Do you think that W.A.N.D.A. is going to take us out to an empty field and hurt us?" Ha!

We both agreed that even if that is where she was leading us, we would probably follow her every direction to get us out to that empty field!

She ended up taking us straight to the game, no pit stops, and no scary, dark, empty fields. I am so glad that she got us there, becuase you know what?

We were there to see T.J. make the very last tackle of the game. All. By. himself.

And

Because this is what Cal looked like as we watched that game.


Thank you W.A.N.D.A.!
Thank, Thank you W.A.N.D.A!