We are back from vacation, I don't know if that's a good thing or not..... The good thing is we were able to finally defrost and we got to sleep in our own beds. When we left Green River Sunday morning it was cold. By the time we got to Rawlins we were in the middle of a blizzard and the snow was sticking to the roads. We kept going since the roads were still open, I didn't want to get stuck in Wyoming! Between Rawlins and Laramie it was horrible. We watched a semi slide across both west bound lanes of traffic, slide through the median, slide across both east bound lanes of traffic and hit the fence in the field. And that was about 100 feet in front of us. Thankfully we were going slow because the roads were so bad so we were able to stop in time. The truck didn't hit anything other than the fence, I'm sure the driver needed a change of underwear by the time he came to a stop. Oh, then there was the time I was trying to very slowing pass a semi and hit whiteout conditions. That was fun. I couldn't see 2 feet in front of me. I needed a change of underwear after that. It was kind of fun to watch the weather change on our way back south. The coldest temperature was 16 degrees. By the time we got into town it was 73 degrees and the kids couldn't get in the door fast enough to change into shorts and t-shirts.
We were going to head back on Saturday but my daughter Logan got sick. She woke up and said she didn't feel good and pretty much spent the rest of the day in the bathroom. We wound up taking her to the e.r. for some good anti-vomiting medicine. We don't know what happened, but she wasn't running a fever, and nobody else was sick. She gets like that about once a year (according to her dad) and she requires a trip to the e.r. She has a really weak stomach so it doesn't take much to make her sick. I told her that was a pretty bad way to get an extra day of vacation, but her sister and her brother were thanking her. Logan didn't think that was very funny. We made it home ok though without any vomiting breaks thanks to the nice dr. that prescribed her meds to get home on.
Zack didn't want to leave. He cried the night before we left, then cried again right before we left. Dad enticed us to come back with a Wii. By then it was too late. We were already on the road and there was no turning back. Jeff wants to move up there, I think he is crazy. It's too cold!!!!! We decided that the wind in Wyoming is worse only because it is bitter cold. I can handle the wind much better here now. You only get a mouthful of sand instead of getting bone chilling cold. When we got home we found that 2 of our fish were dead. One of them was Zacks beta fish and the other was our sucky fish in the other tank. Shhh...Zack only knows about the beta. He had a meltdown when he found out. Then he got upset because the girls flushed him down the toilet (it's nasty down there mom!) so I had to tell him he was in fishy heaven and he would go down a different tube where the water was clean. Thanks to my oh so wonderful brother in law, he thought the fish needed lots and lots of food and they really needed bread too. Yeah, bread. Who gives little tropical fish bread? Both tanks were so gross, and we were only gone for a week. The poor sucky fish couldn't open his mouth without eating and Jeff swears he gorged himself to death, but he couldn't help it.
Anyway, we had a great time and none of us really didn't want to come back to reality. Unfortunately we had to. Now that we are home and settled again we are glad to be back. The kids are back in school, Jeff and I are back at work and life continues on. Thanks to dad and Chris for putting up with us for the week and thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for putting up with us for a couple of days. And thanks to Uncle Kay for coming down to see us for the day! It was a lot of fun to see everyone, and we already miss you all.
