In most cases, my answers to “how was your trip?” is “uneventful”. I can’t say that about our trip home from KS to NC. Nope. Not one bit. As a matter of fact, on this trip, the return was QUITE eventful. Where shall I start.
Abby coughed all night long … ALL night long, making us all very tired. And, making her very tired. Upon waking up, she complained right and left of a stomach ache. I figured she was hungry because she did not eat much, if anything, at dinner the night before.
Emily was fine and bouncing around, luckily. Joseph was moping as usual. 😉
So, off we go. We stopped at McDs for an on-the-go breakfast, which Emily happily scarfed down and Abby refused to touch.
We drove for a while and shortly into the drive, Abby started to throw up. Argh! I wondered, but couldn’t tell for sure if this was going to happen. 🙁 In any case, we got through that with the McDs bag and pulling her nasty shirt off. She didn’t want to change her pants so I bundled her up in her coat and she quickly fell asleep.
We drove on.
We stopped somewhere in the middle of nowhere at a gas station/snack place. Em popped up, as well as Abby who now was saying she felt much better and we get her a new shirt from the clean clothes in one suitcase. She still didn’t want any food, but Emi ate some M&Ms.
We drove on.
Somewhere else in the middle of nowhere, all the sudden I hear … “Mom?!” from Emi! And out comes her breakfast, M&Ms and all! Out of the blue!
By now I’m thinking …. crap! What are we going to do on the airplane when it hits Joseph, then me, then Ron. 🙁 Wah! And, of course by now, Ron and I are feeling quesy, but we are trying to attribute that to the two previous vomiters, not an actual feeling of ickyness. 🙂 Emi, luckily, went into a McDs bag too (the other one we got from Grandma and Grandma at stop #1 when we thought this would recur with Abby).
Emi proceeds to fall asleep and Abby stay awake.
We drive on.
No one else gets sick! Yeah!
We get to the airport 1.5 hours in advance of our flight and learn it’s been delayed approximately 1.5 hours. So, lunch time.
Now, you’re thinking … two sick kids, two sick adults, surely they aren’t going to get on the plane! And surely they aren’t going to eat?
Well, we were hungry!
So, we get bagel sandwiches and fruit for a whopping $36! Talk about airport food rip off. 🙂 It’s the first food Abby’s eaten since the day before and she gobbled it down, so I was crossing my fingers. Em chowed down too. I ate slowly as did Ron. Both of us were feeling a bit better, but now my Mom was super sick — not stomach though — flu like symptoms. 🙁 Boy are we a troupe!
We learn, after eating, that the plane will be delayed to approximately 5:30 pm … then about 10 minutes later learn it’s heading out NOW — RIGHT THEN — because a package has just been delivered that must be in Greensboro in a matter of hours … a heart transplant! So our plane got pushed to the front of the pack and in a matter of minutes, out we went!
Ron and I are still thinking … will we get more of the car ride?? Our seats were in the very back, right next to the bathroom (thankfully) and our 2 hour flight was … uneventful! Phew! 🙂
Our flight in Atlanta was also delayed, so we didn’t even get on the plane until nearly 9:30 pm and home around 11:15pm and then with baggage (which took forever) and then the ride to the Fairfield Inn to get our car and then home, we were home around 1am.
Tiiiiiiiiiired. Very eventful. None the worse for wear. 🙂