Kindness in the most unusual forms

It was the first day of our three day trip to Seattle. Despite its weather and all the bad rep the city gets because of it, I've always liked Seattle on each of my visits. May be it's the verdant setting, the ubiquitous lakes or simply the good time I'd had there with family and our friends, Seattle is a little dear to me.
On this particular day, the four of us - myself, husband, daughter and my youunger sister drove to Snoqualmie falls after a nice sumptuous lunch. My sister had recently had an ankle fracture, her left foot was still in a cast and she walked using crutches. We enjoyed the view of the falls, at a distance, from the lookout. We took some pictures and as we were walking back toward the parkling lot, we saw a sign that read ' river trail, 1 mi'. I was tempted and asked my sister if she thought she could make it. The folks walking back after the hike raved about the spectacular view of the falls from down there and said it was really a short, easy hike. So, I coaxed DH and DS ( dear sister) to go on the trail with me. It was ridiculous and insane of me to do that. The hike was steadily downhill which meant we would have a difficult ascent on the way back. After every 5 minutes, people returning told us we were very close to it and that it was worth the trouble. But obviously, some of them were wrong, it did take us a good 25-30 minutes to get down there. When we were almost there, we saw a parking lot down there to our right. It immediately gave us a sense of hope that if one of us could drive the car down from the upper level parking lot, to this lot, it'd mean escaping the almost impossible climb with our toddler and my sister limping with her crutches.
We had to walk over a narrow wooden bridge to reach the deck, from where there was an indeed breathtaking view of the falls. After some mandatory 'click click' we managed to walk back to the parking lot we'd spotted on our way down. My husband enquired with a couple of people there and learnt the upper leve parking lot was only five minutes drive away. He asked me to wait there with DD and DS while he walked up and drove back to pick us up. It was barely 2-3 minutes since he'd left that a downpour started. I saw DH running back toward us. The rain forced us under a tree and we quickly decided asking for help was the only way to go.
DH first asked the driver of a silver Hyundai if they had room for one person. They didn't, there were 3 adults and two kids in their child seats. We then spotted a desi family loading up into their green SUV. As DH went up to them to explain the situation, I suddenly turned my head to see the silver Hyundai do a full speed reverse, a lady from the back seat got out and sat on the lap of a gentleman in the front passenger seat. Meanwhile, the driver, a lady in her late fifties I suppose, asked me where my husband was. She said she could give him a ride. I swallowed in amazement, nodded and called out to DH saying 'She can take you!'. He immediately thanked the desi family and ran toward the silver car, sat in the back and they left. All three adults in that car were really large, they were fat. For them to sit on one another just so they could help us, was indeed an extraordinary act of kindness. They must have felt sorry for our plight - caught in the rain with a baby and a handicapped person. I turned towards DS and said " See, desis never help. These other guys have been so kind!". Before I could finish my thought, the green SUV stopped by us, the driver asked us if my husband had received help, I said "yes". He asked us if we were okay or if we needed a ride. I told him if he could take us, that'd be helpful or else, we would just wait for my husband to come back for us. The desi family had two slightly older kids on booster seats. They had the 2 kids sit on their grandparents' laps and removed the booster seats to make room for us. It was just enough room for one adult, but myself, DS and DD on my lap managed to squish ourselves fit! My sister gave me a smile as to say " what did you just say about Indians and their helping nature?"! It was only a five minute ride to the top, but in heavy rain and some really winding roads with no pavement. We got out, just as my husband exited the silver Hyundai. We thanked both the families and said bye to them. We had seen two examples of timely help from total strangers, people who went out of their ways, inconvenienced themselves to do this. But for them, we would have had a nightmare of an experience making it all the way to the top by ourselves, on foot. I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to repay the same folks, but I intend to repay the good deed when an opportunity presents itself, continuing the chain of kindness.