Family Vacation!!

We left for a very long awaited family vacation to Orlando, FL the night of the 29th of September. While I would like to say travel was uneventful, it would be a complete lie! Therefore, I will split up my posts into a few categories. IE: Travel, Disney, Discovery Cove, etc. Here's the first installment:

The night before we left, I was horribly sick, throwing up ALL night. Plus, it was bad on the other end as well (I know, some might say TMI, but hey, you don't get the full effect of how sick I was unless you know!). Thankfully, it was over by morning (thanks in part to some left-over preggo meds to stop vomiting from the first 3 months!), but I was exhausted! I had grand plans for the day we left. IE: changing the bed sheets on all the beds/crib, making sure all laundry was done (so there wouldn't be anything to come home to!), taking out all the trash, last minute packing, getting some cash from the ATM, and lots and lots of general house cleaning. I love coming home to a clean house. Needless to say, I didn't even do a fraction of it. Things got packed, the trash was out, and I was alive. We left that night, and thankfully, the kids slept almost the whole way to Seattle, so even though I can never sleep on the plane, I could at least relax :)

We got to Seattle REALLY early in the morning (4am or so) and didn't catch the flight to Orlando until 8am, so we got some breakfast and let the kids play in the coolest airport play area ever (it's at the beginning of concourse A for those of you flying through there with kids!). Unfortunately, I seemed to have given whatever was ailing me to Brady, because he threw up mainly chocolate milk all over. And, in my fog of the day before, I failed to put an extra set of clothes/PJ's in the carryon for Brayden. So he STUNK until we got to the hotel in Orlando than night! However, another silver lining is that he was ok in a few hours, didn't blow the diaper out, and by the time we got on the plane again, he seemed fine.

Phew...only a 5.5-6 hour flight until paradise and SLEEP! The kids were great the first 4-ish hours of the flight to Orlando also, which was nice. Then.....Koda says he has to go to the bathroom. Everything's fine until about 20 minutes later when he says he has to go again. And then 20 minutes later, again! Poor little guy! And then the puking started. For an entire hour and a half. And the first time he threw up, he missed the sickness bag altogether (or should I say he just failed to have one accessible), and it ended up all over the floor, the strap of the diaper bag, and on his crocs. Gross. And being the most helpful hubby he is in times like this, George was about to throw up just at the sight and smell of it. So I got to squish my pregnant butt inbetween the seats to try and clean it up as best I could while I sent Koda to the bathroom to spend some time throwing up/going potty. This pretty much lasted until final approach when we absolutely HAD to take our seats! We get to Orlando, get the bags, the car, and find the hotel. The kids and I stay in the car while George goes to check in, and of course, Koda has to throw up again. Thankfully, he opens the car door to do so, and it's just on the pavement. The night is spent peppered with Koda running to the bathroom. But, again, by morning, he feels better and good enough to venture out to go to Downtown Disney.

We have a great day....but alas, 2 days later, George is hit with being sick. His is probably the WORST out of all of us, but I'll spare you the details. My poor hubby was up all night in the bathroom, and it lasted into most of the next day. That was also the day we were scheduled to go to Discovery Cove (the only thing we had set in stone because you have to make reservations with them!), but upon calling when they opened (and when we were already supposed to be there), they let us change the day to later in the week, which was great since it was the highlite of our trip, as well as the most expensive thing we did, and it would have been horrible to make George go while feeling so cruddy!

Then, about a week into our trip, Brayden started getting some serious eye goop. Koda liked to call it eye snot. Seriously, that's what it looked like. Neither of my boys have ever had pink eye (and neither have George or I), so I'm so unfamiliar with it. Technically, it was only snot. He didn't have pink, irritated looking eyes, wasn't fussy, they weren't itchy (or at least he wasn't itching them!), etc. Just the eye snot. Regardless, we found a "doc-in-the-box" (after I had confirmed that it was definately bacterial pink eye with the help of the internet on the Iphone!), and 20 minutes later, we left with a prescription for eye drops. By the next morning, Brady's "eye snot" had diminished greatly. I was like a crazy nazi the rest of the trip though, making us all wash our hands a billion times a day!

Our travels home were relatively uneventful compared to the trip itself. No sickness, no puking, etc. However, Brayden decided he REALLY didn't want to sleep on the Orlando to Seattle flight, and proceeded to SCREAM at the TOP of his lungs for about 2 hours until he finally passed out! We spent a couple days in Seattle, which were "bad-news uneventful", as well as the flight home from Seattle (the kids were ANGELS on that flight!). While we loved our trip and the weather, we were really glad to be back in our own bed. Nothing beats a tempur pedic and your own comfy pillows!