Bigtime car repairs!

Last week Luis' car started shaking really bad and he noticed that his brakes were sticking really badly. We had to drive no faster than about 40 mph to church on Sunday. It was pretty scary. So Monday morning we took the car in.

Our entire brake system is screwed up! I don't know all the technical terms, but basically our car is not drivable because at any moment our brakes could go out and we could have a major accident. The reason for the destroyed brake system- power steering fluid ended up in our brake lines. The last person to do our oil change and top off our fluids was Walmart, about a month or two ago. Our mechanic (who is a family friend, thank goodness!) thinks that they just accidentally put in PS fluid instead of brake fluid. (too bad we can't prove that it was them... but Luis is going to go talk to them anyways!) I'm not even going to try and explain how much damage was done! It is going to cost $600 to fix it... and our friend is giving us a MAJOR discount. I don't even want to know how much it would be to have someone else fix it! Kind of a bad time for us to have to fork out that much money for car repairs... but I guess no time is a good time for that. So I guess we will have our car back in a few days with a brand new brake system. We are so frustrated and just trying to balance all the awful things going on right now! Trying to stay positive though. Linda and Alan are here visiting, so we are having fun! Like I said earlier- pictures to come.