The Van is leaking

Last Saturday (7/14) Sarah and I decided to take our girls skating. Out into the rain we go. I equipped every girl with a partner with a umbrella or an umbrella. First stop was ACE check cashing to cash one of our girl's check. Well the van began to shake as if it is going to shut off, as we pulled into the check cashing parking lot. When our girl ran in with her check i hopped out and checked out the engine. I did what every man who doesnt know what else to does. I checked the oil. Sure enough it was low. So i got some oil from inside the van (not sure why it was in there) made a funnel out of old mapquest maps and poured in the oil. I started the van and let it sit so the oil could circulate (thanks Dad). So off we go about 1/2 mile down the road and the van begins to shake and lunge, the oil and service engine light turn on and i find a place to stop quickly. Out i hop to check the engine, remembering i have already checked the oil and the only man knowledge i have left is look at the engine for a minute pretending to know what your doing, then look under the car. Upon looking under the car i find a stream of liquid coming out. Granted it is Raining while I'm looking under the car i took in to account it might be air condition condensation or rain water. So i did the old fashion check...stick your hand in it. The fluid was hot/warm and smelled and felt like radiator fluid ( i stopped short of tasting it.) So i made the decision to get the car home (or as far as we could get) before it got any worse (we were to far to walk comfortably in the rain, and in a bad neighborhood to leave the van, it was the weekend and the maintenance people work during the week so it would have had to sit there all weekend). Well we made it home at the vans crippled top speed of 15mph as it streamed, and lunged down the road, but we made it home. We walk into the house ready to fax our maintenance request. And there is our couch in our office being soaked from a leak in the roof.