This day was a complete foggy blur!
I went to bed early the previous night because I was so sick.
I FROZE and my body ached all night.
In the morning I literally couldn't get out of bed I was so shaky and cold.
It takes a lot for a sickness to knock me down flat.
And this was the one that did it!
It was our last day at the cabin
which is bittersweet
and also a ton of work to clean everything and load up.
Luckily Ryan is super hubby and did everything for both of us.
I was half dead upstairs moaning and groaning.
Eventually I was able to get up and help out a bit.
Then we loaded up and headed back to Blackfoot.
This time Taylee and I rode in Papa Nolie's truck
so we could have some quiet and hopefully sleep a bit.
Ryan, Poppy, Anden and Laiklyn went in our car.
(I didn't realize for a few weeks after that in my fog I forgot to take our usual goodbye cabin pic on the back deck!)
We drove straight to the Idaho Falls airport to drop off Poppy for his flight back to AZ.
He's smarter than us and chose to fly home rather than drive home with us that day! lol
Well the Gravens flight from that morning was severely delayed so they actually
flew out the same time as Poppy now.
The kids were ecstatic to be able to see each other at the airport one last time!
We said our tearful goodbyes.
Literally poor Kyrrigan just sobs when she has to leave :(
Then it was 30 mins back to Dad's house.
As soon as we arrived we left the older kids with Papa Nolie
and then Ryan, Laiklyn and myself headed straight to Urgent Care.
Which was the finale of medical/health problems for this dang trip!
I was diagnosed with a grab bag of goodies..
beginning of ear infection, sinus infection, chest/cough infection, high fever,
inflamed tonsils/sore throat.
So we hobbled out of there and back to Dad's to get the older kids.
We loaded up our car for the final time
said big thank yous and good byes
and headed back into town to Walgreens to pick up my handful of prescriptions.
Then it was on to the good ole I-15 freeway southbound....
to find warmth and NO GERMS!
It was 7pm at this point.
We planned for a quiet peaceful 12 hour night drive home with sleeping children.
Boy were we wrong!!
Laiklyn screamed the majority of the way home.
Which meant the whole carload was awake.
I was miserably sick and drugged up...literally!
And not in a good way!
They didn't give me a measuring cup for my codeine cough syrup and my "estimate"
gulp must have been too much.
Or maybe I'm allergic to codeine?
Or it doesn't mix well with the z pack pills?
Or maybe God was just trying to put me out of my misery! lol
But my world was spinning and nauseous.
I almost fell flat on my face when I hopped out of the car into the freezing cold snow
to run the kids into the rest stop bathrooms.
Oh and of course to add to the excitement
we were in the middle of a huge snow storm the ENTIRE STATE of Utah!!
Oh and do I even mention that apparently the snow plows don't run in the middle of the night!
Well let me clarify.
They at least occasionally go northbound.
Just not southbound.
Which is where we were.
So we creeped along with scary slushy snowy unplowed roads with
rude semis cutting us off and throwing more snow on us
in the dark middle of the night
for like 6 hours!!!!
I felt so bad for Ryan trying to navigate that mess
as I fell in and out of consciousness.
Then to make the trip even more memorable
the freeway was closed right after St George for construction
and we went on a fun 1 hour detour in the middle of nowhere.
Like the scary pitch black winding snowy roads to your death type nowhere!
The snow finally stopped once we left Utah's tight grip!
So from there on we could finally go the speed limit
and get the heck back home to Arizona!
We rolled into Anthem about 8am with the biggest road trip hangover ever.
I'm not sure how the heck we survived that!
Seriously I still think it was just a bad bad nightmare!! lol
I had told Ryan that our car would probably just give up and die once we got home.
We drove the crap out of it during this trip!
I glanced over at the trip odometer.
Wow.
Almost 3000 miles in 12 days!
The next day the check engine light turned on in the poor Escalade.
Seriously.
(I'm still in denial to take it in and get it checked!)
Well Ryan and I couldn't even speak about Idaho or our Christmas trip for the next week!
We were scarred.
But now that time has healed our wounds and illnesses
we can look back with positive loving thoughts about our ever so action packed
2015 Idaho Christmas Trip!
We might be considered fools but at least we make the most out of each day in our lives! lol
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