Gough Family Vacation 2012 (part 2)

The rest of Sunday was rather uneventful, a good dinner and some time in the pool.  The kids slept pretty good at the Palm Desert condo's.  Kate is a LOUD sleeper -especially when she's a little sick, which she was.  And, I am a very LIGHT sleeper, so a few nights we stuck her bed in the bathroom.  It worked some of the time.  We just had one really bad night with her, the last night in Palm Desert.  I have no idea what was wrong, but she seriously cried/screamed from about 1:30 am until sometime between 4:30 or 5 am.  And then Hyrum woke us all up at 6!  Luckily she did great at our place in Las Vegas on the way home, and she's been sleeping great at home.  She must just be a little homebody when it comes to sleep.

I should have kept better track of what we did each day!  I think Monday was mostly a hang out at the condo's and swim.  Hyrum loved the pools, and we got him some water wings when we got there, which he did great with.  Kate seemed to like it -in her little floating boat, but wasn't too ecstatic.  She might be like her mom, not really a water girl.  

Tuesday we went to The Living Desert zoo.  The highlights were this awesome little model train village, that I didn't even get a picture of or let Hyrum look too long.  We were in a hurry to get in line to feed one of the giraffe's and had planned to go back.  By the time we made it back around, we were all too tired and hungry to go back!  Oops.  Feeding the giraffe's was fun, which the 3 older kids did.  They have LONG tongues!  It also had a fun playground that the kids liked too.  There was also a petting area, which Hyrum loved until one of the goats hit him with his horns.  

We had a delicious steak dinner on Tuesday -for Valentines day.  We mostly ate in, Dave and Lisa doing most (all) of the cooking, but we did go out a few times.  It was a lot more relaxing to be at home and easier with the kids for sure!  

Wednesday was a sick day for the Lafeen's.  It was scheduled to rain, (originally it was going to be Disneyland, but it was raining in Anaheim too), so it was a good day to be sick, I guess.  They both had fevers and were pretty ornery.  Luckily, they were over the worst of it by Wednesday night and were just a bit tired and wiped out for the next day.

Speaking of Wednesday night... Justin didn't want to be overshadowed by the kids this trip, so he decided to have a little issue of his own.  Some kind of bug down there did not like him very much, and his skin felt likewise.  He had, what we assumed, were bug bites all over his body.  The weird thing, he was the only one who seemed affected -out of the 4 of our, and everyone else there.  I neglected to think that buying some benadryl might at the very least put a bandaid on the situation.  So, at 2:30 am he woke me up and asked what he should do.  Every inch of his body was red, and he was starting to get white welts and swollen all over too.

If we weren't planning on leaving for Anaheim at 7am the next morning I would have said just suffer through the night and go to an urgent care.  But, since we needed to leave so early, he drove himself to the ER.  It seemed to be going okay, but they wanted to give him a shot of Benadryl, and (obviously) wouldn't give it to him until he had a ride home -since it makes you so drowsy.  It was 3:30 am.  I tried to get him to take a cab, but it would have been pretty expensive and then we'd have to drive back and get the car anyway.  So... he started calling cell phones.  We tried Dave and Lisa, since they were the only ones without kids and would wake up the fewest people.  Instead, I think we ended up waking up all 4 condo's.  Shondel responded to his text, and she said she'd drive me to the hospital, but we needed someone to stay with the kids.  I knocked on the door of Kris and Marime's condo for 6 or 7 minutes (they were the ones right next to us) with no luck.  We finally got Kris' cell phone and woke them up that way.  I left the doors open between the two rooms while I was gone.

I got to the ER, they gave him a shot, and we were on our way home. Back to sleep around 5 and up at 6.  It was a LONG day!