A good morning gone bad

This morning at 6:00 Robert, Scott & I headed to Salt Lake to shop with under privileged children. We started helping 10 years ago with both Whitney & Scott when RC Willey was involved, now it's called a "Bear Hug", after the Jazz Bear. We meet early and are paired up with a child, eat breakfast, the Bear comes in with a grand entrance. We get on buses and have a police escort about 40 blocks from Salt Lake to the Wal-Mart in Taylorsville. We then help the child pick out things to the amount of $90. It started snowing on our drive down to the Wal-Mart and was sticking by the time we headed back. We decided that since we were in Salt Lake we'd go check out a store or 2 for Christmas shopping. We got off the freeway and heading down the road, Robert changes lanes and hits a patch of ice. We start sliding sideways then the back end swings around and we're facing the against traffic. Still sliding we're up on the median, then going across traffic and then back going with traffic again. All the while there is another car trying to avoid hitting us and also sliding. We could have hit that car once in the front of the car and once in the back, but the driver of that car was able to avoid us. I'm scared to death, Robert is calm and Scott thinks its cool, let's do it again. We go to the store and about 30 minutes later are ready to head on. We are at the stop sign ready to turn left, we see a blazer coming to turn right at the street we are stopped on. I can tell that it's not going to make the turn, the driver is going to fast with the conditions and not slowing down quick enought. I was right, the wheels are not turning and it's coming straight for the back door. It hits the car and leaves a dent. I call 911 to report the accident, while Robert is talking with the passenger of the other car. He wants to pay us $200 and call it good. Robert says "no, the police are on their way". We move off the road to the parking lot where we just came from. Robert finds of from the driver that they don't have insurance, we're in a mess now. About 45 min. later the police arrive, and then we find out that the driver doesn't have a license, is a illegal immigrent as well as not being insured. The police tells the other driver and passenger that the car will impounded due to the 3 violations, plus gives him a citation. At this point and time Scott and I just want to get home, I don't like to be out driving or riding in the snow, and the early wakeup was starting to take affect on me. After making contact with out insurance company, we find out that we have to meet our deductible and then our insurance will cover the rest. Our insurance company can go after the other driver to recover what we spend, but who knows witht that. The other people get off scott free, except losing their vehicle which is big. It was a good morning until the accident and finding out we have to meet the deductible this time of the year. There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, tonight we're going to the Mormom Tabneracle Choir Christmas Concert at the Conference Center. Having been to several in years past I know we're in for a really good treat.