Saturday morning we packed up to head out around lunch time. The kids squeezed in some more cousin time. After a week together the novelty of having cousins around to play with all the time was beginning to wear thin and there were an increasing amount of arguments towards the end of the week, especially between Rachel and Lena, who are both the oldest in their family and used to being the "director" of activities. As departure loomed, however, all fights were forgotten and they were so sad to be saying goodbye.
Modeling their tie-dye bandanas:
Somewhere in all the fun that morning Annie threw up all her breakfast right into her lap. We managed to get her clothes run through the washer and dryer before we headed out, and grabbed an ice cream bucket and some ziplock bags as barf bags just in case other kids needed them. Grandma and Grandpa Campbell had been hit by the bug during the night, and Annie and Jacob got it before we left, so at least we were prepared. But driving while sick is never fun. That afternoon a few more of the group were hit with it, but we were already on the road, and thankfully none of the rest of our family had to deal with it.
Annie never got the diarrhea part of it, which would have been horrible for a little girl in a car driving for hours on end. And Jacob never got the throw up part. Annie threw up once more, thankfully when we were already stopped to fill up on gas, and we could dump out the bucket before it stunk up our car. Then she was all better. Jacob's was not so short lived, but he survived.
In our many hours of driving to and from Utah we were able to confirm that Megan has followed the in rest of our kids' footsteps and like the rest of them CANNOT sleep for longer than 30 minutes in the car. Even when it was past her normal bedtime she would fall asleep for 30 minutes, wake up cranky for a half hour, then fall asleep for another half hour, just to wake up again. Luckily we were only in the car past her bedtime one of the four days of driving. Ryan, who normally has an hour and a half nap nearly every day, did not nap once on our drive. But around 4 or 5pm each day got super cranky because he hadn't napped. Megan was not a big fan of her car seat, but did much better when I was out of sight, which happened to be most of the time, since Jacob only drove for about an hour out of each day because he was not feeling well on the days we were driving.
We were making decent time on our drive and figured we'd stop on the other side of Las Vegas with plenty of time to spare before bed time. We pulled off in Henderson at an exit that had 6 hotels, and after driving for a mile we didn't see one of them, so we stopped for some dinner, then got back on the freeway for 15 more minutes to Boulder City. Megan especially was done driving, but everyone was really ready to be out of the car. I prayed as we drove through Boulder City that we would find a hotel that had a room quickly because I didn't think I (or any of the rest of us) could handle another hour or hour and a half to Kingman where the next chance for hotels would be. We pulled up at a hotel and when I went in we were able to get the very last non-smoking room available. They had 2 more smoking and one non-smoking. Apparently there were two big races the next morning and things were pretty booked in town, so it was a total answer to my prayer that we were able to get the last room available there.
We were all so relieved to be there. Ryan and Rachel jumped back and forth on the beds a few times while Annie laid and watched them, still recovering from her sickness. We let them watch a short movie to settle down, and everyone was asleep by 8pm.
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